‘Betrayed, That’s The Word’: Small Business Owners Reel as Google AI Destroys Google Search.
CDM: In March 2024, Morgan McBride stood in her half-renovated kitchen posing for a photo shoot. The images were for a new Google ad campaign, a celebration of the ways the search engine had empowered her family’s do-it-yourself home improvement site, Charleston Crafted, to flourish. Just weeks later, she said, traffic from Google dropped more than 70%.
McBride had weathered Google algorithm changes before. But this time, the recovery never came. She suspects that more of her readers are getting advice from Google’s AI-generated summaries, which now appear prominently atop many search results – sometimes giving renovation tips that she says are incorrect or potentially unsafe. “You can’t just sit around waiting for things to turn around,” she said. Advertising revenue on her site has since dropped by 65%, costing her tens of thousands of dollars. more here
AI is not really AI…
LOL, It has begun. Fuck Google. Anybody seriously relying on Google so called AI is dumber than a box of rocks. Google equals communism. Google needs to die. I’m wondering why they didn’t use Grok. Oh wait I know. Because they were Libtard outfits in the first place.
@fullmetal256
Only reason I clicked the RSS link was to screams “It isn’t AI!”
You beat me to it
I been saying it ain’t AI here from the git. It’s not self learning, it’s not independent. Thank God. Back of the line.
I like to watch YT videos that look back at things in the past. You can always tell the the voice is AI when they say things such as “MPH” as “mif.” What is really annoying is when videos tell you the same information three times — in the same video — because AI does not proofread of edit the copy. I think AI also finds the photos and videos, as you see a picture of Dean Martin when the “narrator” is talking about Perry Como.
It’s a technology challenge to make dumb people dumber.
1% usefull for scientific applications, 99% marketing based crap designed to take advantage of the public. The only thing thats going to slow this down are multiple huge lawsuits when people act upon its outputs with bad/costly/dangerous/deadly results.
That all of human knowledge (read: garbage scraped from the internet) is leveraged assures biased and incorrect results.
Heuristic application of statistical analysis to problems and questions of human behaviour (that defy logic) cannot prove beneficial.
Keep it in the lab where it belongs, pose your heretofore ‘unsolvable’ theories, apply for another grant.
Wait till just ONE Chicomm quantum computer kills crypto.
I noticed videos on YouTube that show pictures that have nothing to do with the narration. Or, they show a story of a deer saved by a human, for example, and one can clearly see that the featured deer is really different deers from different stories. It’s all just click bait.