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[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online. The trick exploits weaknesses in the systems built into chatbots, and it's harder to pull off in some cases, depending on the subject matter.

I wonder how long it takes and if you need a popular blog. I don't know much about SEO, I kind of want to try this on myself but I feel like they wouldn't even scrap my brand new one post blog. Then again...

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

[-] Rhoeri@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

My god I hope not.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 22 points 2 months ago

Why wouldn't they? You don't even have to be logged in to view them.

You should never assume anything you post publicly online is at all private or hidden from any search engine/AI.

[-] Rhoeri@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

Could you imagine someone legitimately looking some shit up and having trash from lemmy.ml be the result?

The world isn’t really for that level of misinformation.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago

As if the general level of misinformation online isn't already several orders of magnitude worse than anything on lemmy.ml.

[-] Rhoeri@piefed.social -5 points 2 months ago

misinformation > smug and arrogant misinformation

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

I don't know about that... smug and arrogant at least turns a lot of people off.

Regular misinformation flies under the radar.

[-] bdonvr 6 points 2 months ago
[-] chamomile@furry.engineer 7 points 2 months ago

@OwOarchist @Rhoeri Unlike AI crawlers, search engines generally respect robots.txt and noindex tags, which will tell them not to index or surface those pages in search results. This is how fediverse profiles which have chosen to opt out of internet search indexes do so.

You should still assume things you post in public with no auth required are public of course.

[-] cron@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Does robots.txt really work in the fediverse? At least on lemmy, the content can be retrieved on different hosts, all of which have different robots.txt files. Unless it is somehow "baked" into the protocol.

[-] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Major search engines respect robots.txt, but as you said some instances allow them but this is not a scalable way

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

If you search Fluxer (that Discord alternative people are raving about) on DDG, a programming.dev link is on the first page.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Even on DuckDuckGo search results are user tailored. I don't see anything fedi on my first page.

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