""It has happened," wrote developer Arian van Putten in a social media post over the weekend. "The number one Google result was an official Pulumi documentation page that was clearly written by an LLM (it had a disclaimer that it was) and hallucinated an AWS feature that didn't exist. This is the beginning of the end.""
"Search quality has declined because search engines index low-quality AI-generated content and present it in search results."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/
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