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  • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answersEnglish
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    4 minutes ago

    There’s no such thing as “algorithmic search”

    What Larry Page came up with was Pagerank, which is a ranking algorithm.

    Bro…

    Meaning that there isn’t a LLM that does any benchmarked task with an accuracy above 75%, see https://llm-stats.com/

    Tell me what you are seeing. This page you linked shows all top models for AI research at above 80% and the top ones at 90%.

    Here is an April article stating Gemini AI summary at 90%. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html

    And keep on mind these benchmarks will use more complex searches than what people use normally.

    75% sounds like 2025, but let’s say that is the the number we both agree to. That’s still useful enough most of the time that you wouldn’t scroll or search further. AND it requires you to take the stance that technology remains at a standstill and never improves over time. Let me ask you this. 1 year ago reddit and lemmy had plenty of posts showing awful and memey AI summary and search results. Where are those posts now?

    Finally the money part. I point you to Youtube. A company that was never , got bought out and still remains free* to this day. Is it enshittified from before? Yes. But its still not withdrawing a dime from my bank account.

    I guess the part I don’t understand here is that you must know that all these companies make money from their users, one way or another, and still you believe you aren’t paying for any of it. Are you ok with how they make that money, then?

    I am perfectly aware of the situation. But i don’t have a doomerism view on it that a lot of you share. If we never shared our any of our data,

    1. We would not have these services most likely. Where do you think traffic and routing data comes from when you use Google Maps? Do you think the average person would prefer paying some company for GPS, and worse everything experience? Would the average person pay monthly for something like a 100 MB email mailbox?

    2. For that reason I’m more ok trading data for service. Most of the time that data use is for monetary purposes which motivates the company to also improve said service (to a point).

    That said I fully support more regulation to the industry on how data is handled in general.

  • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answersEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Text search is fine but not better than something that can both find you the most likely result you are looking for AND explain it to you if its too technical.

    Text search is what Yahoo and Ask Jeeves did. Then Google improved on it by adding algorithmic search.

    I bring up accuracy because its not 100% accurate. But if it works 85- 90 percent of the time, which it currently does according to benchmarks, that’s more efficient than Text search even accounting for times you need to adjust.

    And no its not as cost efficient, but again I dont care as the end user because its not my cost.

    You really believe that these multi trillion companies don’t make a profit? That they offer their products for free? Such a naive take.

    Are you like, being purposefully ignorant here? I’m pointing out the fact that these trillion dollar companies weren’t profitable for years on end before they became so. And in the end their profitability is irrelevant to me. I don’t care how much AI costs them if they arent charging me for it.

    And stop with your pedantic “you think free is free omg” argument. Go pay with actual money for your subpar searches then while your data is still being collected everywhere

  • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answersEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m going to be straightforward with you and say that if someone doesn’t want to read documentation, they shouldn’t be doing the job the documentation is for.

    That’s way too black and white. It’s a time and convenience thing. Let’s say i want to troubleshoot something on my motherboard that caused my pc to stop working. I really do not want to be reading through a 300 page manual from my phone (because my pc is not working). Search may turn up 10-20 relevant results that id have to scroll through.

    And AI could take my query and do the work for me. Give me the link to the result they think is most relevant as well as explain it in more layman way than the manual.

    I’m technical so I could do this without AI. But let’s take a less technical person. Now they can follow along and try as well.

    The function is good. Its arguably the best path forward. The issue is accuracy and cost.

    But something does not need to be accurate 100% of the time if we are all aware of it. If we wait for something to be 100% perfect nothing would ever progress.

    And cost should only concern us on the environmental side. We should absolutely force them to fix that side of it. But price wise? Im really confused why the internet continues to bring up cost. I honestly dont care how much it costs a trillion dollar company to provide a service to us if I dont have to pay. Google, Youtube, Amazon, Netflix, all operated in the red for years and years. I don’t remember public discourse being omg how is Google going to afford to keep giving us nonshitty search.