2026-10-15 19:48 UTC
Is there a pattern of AI search engines "inventing" URLs out of nowhere?
Being page numbers in hexadecimal, fake multimedia files (mkv, mp4,...), or non-existent categories.
Example: got a 404 on my music blog for /blogamf-archive/albums-discographie/gyedu-blay-ambolley-discographie/
The first part exists but contains a backup of my Mastodon posts (made with Posty). The 2nd is a category in French that doesn't exist and would not be there anyway.
Last part is a non-existing post...
#AI #Search
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@johntinker@hear-me.social 2026-10-15 19:52
@cybeardjm@masto.ai This really illustrates the main problem with using a statistical engine to produce language.