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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
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At this point, it seems like google is just a platform to message a google employee to go google it for you.
Is that employee named Jeeves?
...Always had been
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.