Spam (created by humans) evolves.
So do humans.
If Google prioritizes AI slop, Google will be deprioritized.
So do humans.
If Google prioritizes AI slop, Google will be deprioritized.
The problem is going to get worse as hallucinations are used as training data because even the AI companies can't tell the difference between AI content and human content.
The masses are fully here now. They're too passive to know or care what's going on. They stick with the path of least resistance: Google, Amazon, Reddit, Twitter, etc. No matter how hostile or shitty those options become.
We have to put aside the way we've thought about the internet before now because it doesn't apply anymore. There will be no more MySpace -> Facebook. The internet is no longer made up of a high enough percentage of conscientious and deliberate users to make a difference.
I massively rate Kagi, but this is way less than ideal.
If we could subscribe and suggest content along our interest graphs, we would control the algorithm and could prune slop with ease.
It'd be incredibly awesome if news, forums, and social media worked like BitTorrent.
DDG lets you turn ads off completely.
My search lists are curated very well through my settings and even just using the recommended block list keeps a lot of junk out of my search results. If I find a bad site, I can block it from all future results pretty quickly. I also can use regex on the URL's in the search result to redirect things like Reddit to old.reddit automatically. It's very nice.