Raw LLM Responses

"*Big Tech fuels 'growth' with crime*" is a bit overdramatic. Google deliberately worsening search results would be idiotic. The claim that there is worsening is quite dubious, because it's based on what people 'feel'. Based on that collection of feelings, the author of the "research" feels it's to show more ads, without having neither evidence, nor any factual basis for such claim. Worse result would speed up further the transition from Google search to LLMs, and the result would be Google making less money. It's true that there are plenty of scammers among the advertisers, but the 70% figure is very well inflated. The WSJ article is paywalled. Anyway, advertising is fully automated, there's no human in the loop. It's impossible to check everything ... and of course the incentive to do that isn't great when the result is less money, but I doubt they allow actual known criminals to advertise because that could have severe legal implications resulting in losses that far exceed the criminal ad revenue.