AI: The Industrialization of Plagiarism
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AI is a tool for mass plagiarism that enables lazy actors to profit from original work while outranking the actual creators on search engines.
Search Quality
The quality, reliability, and usefulness of web search results, including issues like SEO spam, content farm pollution, and the impact of AI-generated content on search engine effectiveness.
Reading List
Google’s AI Pivot: The Enclosure of the Open Web
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Google is using AI to create a controlled layer over the internet that exploits creators and monopolizes information access.
Find Pre-AI Content: A Browser Extension That Filters Results Before Nov 2022
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A browser extension filters search to pre–Nov 30, 2022 results to avoid AI-generated content.
When a Brand Query Puts the Brand Fifth: Google’s Pay-to-Play Problem
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Google Search buries obvious, relevant results beneath ads, proving a pay-to-play system that undermines user intent.
Real-Time Chatbots Now Repeat False News 35% of the Time
Making chatbots real-time and always responsive has doubled their tendency to spread false news claims.
GPT-5 Thinking Makes ChatGPT a Surprisingly Competent Research Assistant
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GPT-5 Thinking turns ChatGPT into a competent, mobile-friendly research agent that interleaves reasoning with web search and tools to deliver verifiable, deep results—provided you guide and sanity-check it.
No Clicks, No Content: How AI Search Cannibalizes Its Own Fuel
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By replacing links with AI answers, tech firms are eroding the web’s incentive to produce content—and ultimately starving their own AI.
Google AI Misattributes ‘Israel Trip’ Video to Benn Jordan; He Seeks Legal Counsel
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Google’s AI wrongly said Benn Jordan made a pro-Israel ‘trip’ video by confusing him with another YouTuber, prompting him to seek legal action.
The Dimensional Ceiling of Single-Vector Embedding Retrieval
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Embedding-based retrieval hits a hard top-k capacity ceiling set by embedding dimension, and real systems already run into it.