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by dylan604 754 days ago
again, even if I were the one doing that Google search, with the domain examples you provided, I wouldn't trust one of them.

Like, common sense on the interwebs just continues to disappear. Gullibility seems to have increased as critical thinking and coming to logical conclusions are disappearing.
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ceejayoz 754 days ago
In this case, it was Meta's own AI regurgitating something it found on Quora. Quite a few people would trust that, especially non-technical folks.
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dylan604 754 days ago
Yes, that is the point of the TFA, but I was commenting on what data was posted online well before the AI was "born". I'm guessing that Meta can fix it with a prompt that tells the system it is not allowed to verify FB phone numbers or there are NO phone numbers for the public to use to contact FB but do not inform the user that there are not phone numbers. Only deny any phone number is a valid phone number for FB (or Meta).
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ceejayoz 754 days ago
That’s where the black hat SEO comes in. Google lost the war well before tinkering with generative AI in the results; they just make it even worse.

The collapse of search has happened faster than non-technical folks realize. They still trust the computer quite a bit.

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