I’ve been using the AI Overviews in Google Search for months now and overall find more utility in them.
I’ve developed an instinct for when to ignore them. Typically it is when “edge information” is involved: facts / data that are only very sparsely published in time / web space, perhaps by only one or a few web authors, perhaps only very recently.
As an AI developer for over a decade, I feel like if we’re calling this “slop”, I fear what these authors think of human error. I’m also doubtful that these people who are damning this project have ever in fact innovated or developed anything significant from scratch themselves.
I’ve developed an instinct for when to ignore them. Typically it is when “edge information” is involved: facts / data that are only very sparsely published in time / web space, perhaps by only one or a few web authors, perhaps only very recently.
As an AI developer for over a decade, I feel like if we’re calling this “slop”, I fear what these authors think of human error. I’m also doubtful that these people who are damning this project have ever in fact innovated or developed anything significant from scratch themselves.
Makes me want to start a company called Slop.