Oddbean new post about login | logout Welcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse. Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question. Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer. https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/133/796/091/643/423/original/92f5286a1b2c5f45.jpeg https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/133/796/200/627/736/original/3bc9c49786554f27.jpeg
@2836a58e I think I've never seen a company work so long and effectively at making their own core product objectively worse than Google has. Google could, today, make a massive improvement to their product simply by going back to their 2005 search.
