@b0rk@social.jvns.ca it's particularly ironic because LLMs came out of search (specifically, the attention mechanism from Google), but Google seems to be less on the ball about actual search quality than they used to be. Some of this is improvements in the content-generation tooling from folks looking to make a buck off content ads (and maybe some conflict-of-interest in that), but it feels like Google used to be more effective at surfacing the high-quality content. Phrasing it in this way, I wonder whether the cost of producing good content has risen above the revenue stream of content ads, so the "free" internet content is being subsumed by either paywalled resources or slop.