Wolven , 29 days ago

So google is admitting that their product is making misinformation worse and also underestimating how MUCH worse
https://www.404media.co/google-says-ai-now-leading-disinformation-vector-and-is-severely-undercounting-the-problem/

Historically, the next step after this is google saying they're going to "roll back" or "investigate" this "experimental" "preliminary" "AI" overview "feature;" then they're going shutter it and strip it for parts, and never speak of it again.

Remember Wave? Yeah. That's what I thought. But at least Wave was useful.

And then there's this potential leak of over 2500 pages worth of internal google documents, showing the sausage-making of google search itself:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

On LinkedIn you can find three classes of reaction to this news: Claims that Google's search is now worthless; Strategies for how to capitalize on the leak; and Denial that the leak means anything at all.

All of which says to me that people are straight-up freaking out about where google is right now.

I mean, when you— the biggest, shiniest, geekiest tech company in the WORLD— have lost the overarchingly technocratic parade that is LinkedIn? You have well and truly lost the plot.

Going to be an interesting next couple of weeks.