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Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History

The first thing people saw when they searched Google for the artist Hieronymus Bosch was an AI-generated version of his Garden of Earthly Delights, one of the most famous paintings in art history.

Depending on what they are searching for, Google Search sometimes serves users a series of images above the list of links they usually see in results. As first spotted by a user on https://x.com/ItsTheTalia/status/1835092917418889710?ref=404media.co, when people searched for “Hieronymus Bosch” on Google, it included a couple of images from the real painting, but the first and largest image they saw was an AI-generated version of it.

LainTrain ,

AI one looks neat. Never heard of this other one.

Plum , (edited )
@Plum@lemmy.world avatar

It’s worth a little digging.

Also, this whole documentary is fantastic, but the Bosch stuff starts around 14:45.

alcoholicorn ,

The AI one looks neat, but it lacks expression.

ravhall ,

It expresses to me.

alcoholicorn ,

What does it express?

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

Regardless of how the image was generated, why is Google treating a random blogspam site as the authoritative version of a work of art over (say) Wikipedia?

According to the article:

As 404 Media has reported in January, Google is regularly surfacing AI-generated websites that game search engine optimization before the human-made websites they are trained on. “Our focus when ranking content is on the quality of the content, rather than how it was produced,” Google told 404 Media in a statement at the time.

Does that mean I can search for any famous image, take the largest existing version, upscale it by 1% and post it on my own site, and instantly be featured at the top of google searches?

Stovetop ,

Because Wikipedia doesn’t serve ads or pay Google, so Google doesn’t like to make them the top result for a lot of searches they should be.

Chee_Koala ,

It’s because this guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan thinks that keeping people engaged on google search longer is what it is all about. Not finding what you search for, no, engagement with your search tool.

"He was the head of search for Yahoo from 2005 through 2012 — a tumultuous period that cemented its terminal decline, and effectively saw the company bow out of the search market altogether. His responsibilities? Research and development for Yahoo’s search and ads products.

When Raghavan joined the company, Yahoo held a 30.4 percent market share — not far from Google’s 36.9%, and miles ahead of the 15.7% of MSN Search. By May 2012, Yahoo was down to just 13.4 percent and had shrunk for the previous nine consecutive months, and was being beaten even by the newly-released Bing. That same year, Yahoo had the largest layoffs in its corporate history, shedding nearly 2,000 employees — or 14% of its overall workforce. " - www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

FaceDeer ,
@FaceDeer@fedia.io avatar

This is "technology news and articles?"

Seems like this place is increasingly just people yelling at AI-generated clouds.

Imgonnatrythis ,

Im betting these now daily mindless “hey look AI did sumptin silly” articles only serve to drive more traffic to Gemini.

catloaf ,

Sort of. I feel like I report half the posts around here because they’re neither news nor articles.

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