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Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

they've been indexing in this manner across the board and tbh I don't quite follow the logic in some cases. for the pay-to-play search ranking shitsites (and other things that surface a lot of adspace) it makes a bit more sense, but for things like books..? why?

and I realize that this is pondering downstream effects of The No Fucks Given Company's internal development processes and things, but even so