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In practice I think it's more Google now has another policy reason to banhammer prolific and irritating blogspammers than an arms race Google has a chance in.

Google isn't yet effective at detecting blogspam generated by naive scripts that simply swap words in the source material for other words in a thesaurus. I don't think they're going to start picking up continuity errors, factual errors or "weirdness" in GPT-3 - which often satisfies human readers - any time soon.

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Google engineers can't even filter out GH or SO scraped sites like gitmemory, nor offer a way to let users block these sites. I'm not sure we should expect them to handle more advanced techniques like detecting word swaps any time soon.

s/can't/won't/

Google search has been poor for years. I think it's time to say can't.

That isn't how it works. Long term refusal to do it isn't evidence their engineers are incapable of it. Blacklisting sites is trivial. They've always been able to do it and they do it routinely to this day.

The reason those results remain in your searches is because sending people to those sites makes Google money, and by definition that is of greater value to Google than the quality and relevance of your search results as a non-paying user.

This filter list for uBO will likely be useful to you

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

The main reason I haven't tried this yet is I am concerned what would happen if every result is one of these spam sites that has fooled Google engineers for so long. Do I get a suspiciously blank page?

The other reason is I started using a search engine that cracked the code to let users rank and block sites (kagi) so I don't have to worry about it.

I am unsure about that but using GPT-3 in that manner would certainly trigger OpenAI's automatic or manual systems and would violate their ToS and your account would be locked.

With GPT-3, yes but how about other generators? There are lots of emerging services that spammers can use.

Does OpenAI actually have those systems? My impression is they are happy to take your money and just tell you not to do those un-nice things

Don't be evil (tm) ?

There is an approval process and when using the prototyping system it warns you about bad words.

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