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Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

So it's working as intended?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Also it doesn't know shit about combos in super double dragon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Google hasn't been dogfooding in a long time have they? I wonder what products Googlers use.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Scammers were already paying Bing and Google to have their sites above real ones.

And now they're paying to have google and bing have their AI to show scam websites above real ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The same assholes riding a new horse and as usual everyone wants to blame the horse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Hell's attorneys are seriously lacking. I've been waiting for them to sue Google for DMCA violations 🤣.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Here the funny part, google knew this shit would happen. How you ask? Well, see google has had this problem for a long time.

When google first came out, there was all sorts of techniques you could use to boost your PageRank. Google had to tweak and tweak and tweak to fix it so that nazi sites would not come up when you looked up Jewish holocaust memorial museums for example.

Seems they’ve learned nothing. And yet they’re still one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

Scary. Let’s add AI to the mix now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh yes they learned. This is now a feature, not a bug. Google's slogan changed long ago.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

At least they haven't used ChaosGPT for this.

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