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Twice this week I've looked up some song lyrics origins/meanings, and it's obvious the old sites are just running LLM summaries of every song they have in their DB.
Wikipedia has notoriously been vague on this, only covering it with a couple sentences for some interview source etc. But those couple of sentences said so much more than the 20 paragraph essay of an LLM trying to figure out and explain creative writing.
It used to be fans chimed in with their ideas and sources, establishing a solid lyrics origin or meaning. But apparently that's dead now for the big services and the blogs that exist buried under SEO.
Seriously, do it now and see what I'm talking about. It's absolute spew.
They aren't even that capable. They simply try to predict the words that would meet a naïve observer's expectations.
It's depressing because I'd rather read someone being completely wrong about a song than for some LLM to summarise the "correct" answer
I also hate how ChatGPT infected the web nowadays is, though I usually look up song lyrics on genius. They sometimes have user generated comments with interesting tid bits. Akin to the old forums would be a lemmy community for interpreting song lyrics :)
I looked up something recently, I think it was about some game, and the top result (and probably several after) were just total gibberish that didn't help at all. Just generative nonsense based on the words it was provided.
I really hope we get a solution to this. I know this is the most profitable to these people, but it's far from the most useful. It's just so cheap to make that anything else existing becomes near impossible. No matter what else is created, once the rules for optimizing it are figured out it'll be flooded with AI nonsense. It honestly feels like the death of information right now, and I don't see an ending.