Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history.

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    they’ve been indexing in this manner across the board and tbh I don’t quite follow the logic in some cases. for the pay-to-play search ranking shitsites (and other things that surface a lot of adspace) it makes a bit more sense, but for things like books…? why?

    and I realize that this is pondering downstream effects of The No Fucks Given Company’s internal development processes and things, but even so