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Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

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[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's pretty trivial to fact check an answer... You should start using this kind of bots more. Check perplexity.ai for a free version.

Sources are referenced and linked.

Don't judge on chatgpt free version

[–] madnificent@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perplexity.ai has been my go to for this reason.

It often brings up bad solutions to a problem and checking the sources it references shows it regulary misses the gist of these sources.

There sources it selects are often not the ones I end up using. They are starting point, but not the best starting point.

What it is good for is for finding content when I don't know the terminology of the domain. It is a starting point ready to lead me astray with exquisitely written content.

Find trustworthy sources and use them.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It is more of a proof of concept at the moment, but it shows the potential

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s pretty trivial to fact check an answer

People don't do it though and often parrot bullshit.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People who do so aren't smart enough to use internet anyway. With or without AI it wouldn't change anything for them, they stay stupid and will continue acting stupidly