The British entrepreneur says search results are plagued with ‘clickbait’

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.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    With google, it depends on what webpage you end up on. Some require more checking than others, which are more trustworthy

    Generative AI can hallucinate about anything

    • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      1 year ago

      There are no countries in Africa starting with K.

      LLMs aren’t trained to give correct answers, they’re trained to generate human-like text. That’s a significant difference.