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Just give me back the results from the 00's era of google. They need to go backwards not ""forwards"".
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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Well now what am I supposed to switch to after DuckDuckGo didn't give relevant results?
I just today spun up my own searxng docker container and I'm pretty excited to start using it!
I got a Google Gemini "text message" in Google messages today. I couldn't find a way to turn it off, so I just blocked and reported it as spam lol
Normal search results are already littered with useless ai generated seo optimized crap. It's got to the point where sometimes it's quicker to learn the knowledge you seek the old fashion way: by reading books.
Enshitification must lose.
Goddammit! Am I gonna have to relearn that Dewey decimal crap?
🤓 Well you see actually we trained all our models off all historical text written by humans so it will be more human and you don't have to read again
Ive seen akin to this sentiment online and its very baffling
Oh, they trained their ais off of that all right.. And then filtered out all the stuff they didn't like such as useful information.
This is how google starts telling people that brawndo is what plants crave.
I just assume that these people never have any problems that they have to solve personally. Otherwise they would be frustrated by the inability to find necessary information. They are either rich or children or both.
I'm happy to have my own SearxNG instance...
Almost every time I ask a direct question, the two AI answers almost always directly contradict each other. Yesterday I asked if vinegar cuts grease. I received explanations for both why its an excellent grease cutter, and why it doesn't because it's an acid.
I think this will be a major issue with AI. Just because it was trained on a huge wealth of knowledge doesn't mean that it was trained on correct knowledge.
I don't see any reason being trained on writing informed by correct knowledge would cause it to be correct frequently. unless you're expecting it to just verbatim lift sentences from training data
Just because it was trained on a huge wealth of knowledge doesn't mean that it was trained on correct knowledge.
Which makes its correct answers and it's confidently wrong answers look as plausible as each other. One needs to apply real intelligence to determine which to trust, makikg the AI tool mostly useless.
Exactly!
Showing different viewpoints in order to not appear biased. It's the cornerstone of democracy after all.
😛
Lol. The generated result that is incomplete and slower than the rest of the search. I usually scroll past it because it's not done generating. If it does generate fast enough, it's usually too vague or broad
Yes, you can cure cancer according to the results......
- Dr Williams Oz. Cancer pill center 3)I ate a corn dog and it cured my can...
- research into cancer cures has come u...
- at McDonald's we too have canc...
- the best cancer cures by Motley Fo...
- top 20 best ways to iPhone your canc...
"Start"
This may actually be a net improvement to the Google Search experience, since the engine is borderline unusable without uBlock Origin. But also it feels weird that Google would make an AI generated prompt the focal point and not the entire rows of sponsored ads that litter all search results.
How did the big tech industry get this terminally stupid?
...the engine is borderline unusable without uBlock Origin.
~~Chris~~, would you elaborate more on this experience?
Update: Who's Chris? Curse you, speech to text.
Update: Who’s Chris? Curse you, speech to text.
Speech to text has gotten me into trouble so many times, it's actually comical at this point.
😁 Me too. This was rare for me. FUTO with offline STT has been such a boon. I'm glad to be away from google's gboard.
I'm not Chris, but it's all the dang "sponsored" search results that populate when googling without using uBlock Origin.
Ive used UBO so long I forget regulwr people see a diffeent internet. Google results are still suffering.
This is exactly my case. Ads on apps as well. I completely forget that people have to see all that constantly.
I wonder how much real estate that sponsored content takes. Then again, not enough to visit google and turn off UBO.
Half the top results are usually AI generated garbage anyway, don't see how a little more is going to hurt...
Bing used to do that already no?
another win for the startpage gang
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