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by mythas 883 days ago
It’s a nice closed loop now so it’s inevitable that ai generated content will win google search. One can pump out content, see how it scores, and iterate until they have an ai trained to top the google search results. It’s already so frustrating looking for real info. Soon it will be impossible.
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If we go back to directories and webrings, we won't have to care about Google-mandated SEO tricks anymore.
That was not some sort of golden age. Finding anything interesting that way is nearly impossible.
if other AI trains on the "news" this generates won't it converge on articles that are nothing but "buffalo buffalo" for millions of pages?
I'm not sure why training on a diverse set of words would lead to converging on one word (but maybe there's a joke going over my head :P)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Is the longest grammatically correct sentence in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

That sentence isn't the longest valid English sentence, for example, this sentence is longer. In fact, as that Wikipedia article says, you can extend that sentence as well:

> Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos"; any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct.

Anyone who wants to go down that rabbit hole, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...

I never herd that before, thanks.
Not everyone is made for herding buffalo.
It's the longest grammatically correct sentence composed entirely of one repeating word.
I love that the article has a diagram with Buffalo from Rochester, NY too LOL