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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

At this point, it seems like google is just a platform to message a google employee to go google it for you.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is that employee named Jeeves?

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

...Always had been

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Does anybody remember "Cha-Cha?" This was literally their model. Person asks a question via text message (this was like 2008), college student Googles the answer, follows a link, copies and pastes the answer, college student gets paid like 20¢.

Source: I was one of those college students. I never even got paid enough to get a payout before they went under.