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Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they’re a great use in surfacing information that is discussed and available, but might be buried with no SEO behind it to surface it

This is what I've seen many people claim. But it is a weak compliment for AI, and more of a criticism of the current web search engines. Why is that information unavailable to search engines, but is available to LLMs? If someone has put in the work to find and feed the quality content to LLMs, why couldn't that same effort have been invested in Google Search?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

If someone has put in the work to find and feed the quality content to LLMs, why couldn't that same effort have been invested in Google Search?

I'd rather a world where 10 companies can compete with google search with AIs, than where they dump money into a monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If you don't feel like discussing this and won't do anything more than deliberately miss the point, you don't have to reply to me at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The content is not unavailable to search engines. AI LLMs simply are better at surfacing it. I don't know what point you were trying to make that I missed, it wasn't on purpose, I assure you.