Google has become shit enough that you may as well.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
makyo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yet another tragedy of our time is watching Google ruin the internet with its SEO bullshit and then replace it with AI
wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
noai.duckduckgo.com
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Oh shit nice I had no idea this subdomain exists, guess I’ll finally be rid of those stupid ai answers in private windows as well!
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
And it’s just a few years ago that I complained that most people don’t know the difference between a search bar and the URL bar anymore. I.e. they are incapable of entering web addresses directly.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well, they’re the same thing now on most browsers.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This started when phones became somehow less shitty for browsing the web. So now everyone without a laptop/desktop could use it. And then it got even worse when browsers got replaced by search-engine-apps. “I thought google was the internet?”
XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’m just happy it isn’t IE. And that normos have started to figure out that they can easily look up things they don’t know. But yeah, “nature builds a better fool”.
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
AOL keywords are back!
halvar@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Well that’s because in the years leading up to the release of ChatGPT Google became shittier and shittier in performing the service everyone was trying to use it for and everyone needed to work. Then came out chatbots, which basically gave that functionality back. For most people accuracy didn’t matter because they could finally feel again that going to the internet to learn about something is viable.
Then of course AI makes search algortihms even less useful and all the ethical problems about AI are raised as well.
But in the end I can’t really blame people who now use AI instead of Google or something. Finding something with just a search query was always rightfully ours and greedy companies took it to make more ad revenue. Now they are finally giving back a worse version of the original, but one that’s still far superior to what search engines devolved into by now. It’s no surprise most people love and also need that.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Soon with some tweaking the AI answers will serve the shitified shit the SEO driven algorithms shat.
Like: Use Elmer’s TM ©️ glue on your Tombstone Pizza from Kroger to keep your toppings sticky!
So you’ll get ads baked into your wrong answer.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
There is at least some merit to the technology for this use-case too though (doesn’t even remotely justify the energy costs though, of course). It’s one of the few things LLMs are genuinely good at since it merely requires text ingestion and to regurgitate what was ingested on some way. As long as it’s paired with proper sources (no clue how ChatGPT does it) for all claimed findings it really can be better. Obviously it’s also “better” since it circumvents all the utterly ridiculous trash we usually have to deal with (pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, registration walls, bad search algorithms etc.) which shouldn’t be used as argument.
Paired with the “Thinking” or “Reflection” feature that simulates some basic thinking process (it even enables these things to count the corrrect amount of ‘b’ in ‘blueberry’, wow!) the results are genuinely good (Disclaimer, I only ever tested that with the free tier of Mistral AI - if you really want to use this stuff at least go to them, they’re bound to EU law). I really get why it becomes so popular, and I’d lie if I said I’d never use it myself. Would still prefer if we weren’t going down this cyberpunk timeline though…
Gnugit@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I’ve quite solidly taken to the phrase “Just Web search it” and gently replying “yes, I’ll Web search it” when prompted to “google it”.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I like to say google and use DDG, I want them to lose their trademark
Gnugit@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I don’t exactly trust DDG after I read about the founder. Have you tried Startpage?
vodka@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I like using Google as a term for search to annoy Google.
So I’ll tell someone to use DDG to Google it
Or Google something on youtube
Or Google something on Facebook
Cort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Genericide is a power held by the people, and we should use it more often.
citizenserious@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The worst part of it is that this person also spelled it wrong.
AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry, you’re not old, they’re just stupid.
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I use gpt every day of my life, professionally and personally. I won’t ask an LLM anything I don’t already know the answer to. I’ve seen them hallucinate way too much crap. With the Internet at our fingertips, there’s no excuse not to do a little of your own homework and proof what comes out of your LLMs.
Oh, and remove those em dashes. Everyone knows you don’t write that LinkedIn post full of em dashes, bro.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I won’t ask an LLM anything I don’t already know the answer to.
Why are you asking if you already know the answer?
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I use gpt every day of my life
eww why?
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Various reasons. Pulling specific data out of documents. Lesson planning, based on parameters from clients. Talk tracks for clients who are co-hosting my courses. Several other tasks that I could perform more slowly.
Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 2 weeks ago
&mdashes and the whole “I’ll tell you your idea’s advantages without disagreeing” behavior are actually still just signs to alert the average person that the text was AI-generated. Sure, you can still choose to ask the LLM to give the text a style and escape human eyes, but I’m assuming these behaviors still exist genuinely for safety reasons.
demizerone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My wife’s cousin is doing chat gpt queries always before making decisions. She is not stupid but not bright either. I keep telling her it’s a algorithm and not AI but all I get a blank stare.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The worst to me is still “Oh, I ask him stuff all the time.”
Can we not gender the advanced auto complete, please…
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think if someone told me that they’d just get blocked.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ehatrs the difference these days really? At least chat gpt does not have ads
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That answers are all made up, but at least they’re not ads!
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My point is, that you’re forced into that with Google too
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
30% of the answers are. The rest aren’t.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yet
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“you are simply… Bad product”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Just go to your local library and look for books on the subject.
nexguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like to start asking around until someone knows about it and then interview them.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
What about information that is less than a year old?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Pretty sure the answer to “how to kill children in Skyrim” can’t be found in a library book, but maybe I can get some practice irl after like 3:30PM? /j
sirico@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
They replaced my algorithmic sorted response… with an algorithmic sorted response
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Wouldn’t “GPT it” be easier/more likely to say?
I generally don’t use these, but Copilot (in Windows) uses one of them (I’m not sure which) and I’ve thrown a few questions at it when I’m bored. Nothing that matters. We have Windows 11 machines at work. I find AI amusing but I don’t take it seriously, and I don’t use it at home or on my mobile. It’s really not for me.
I don’t like Grok but they have a good name. I mean I don’t “like” any of them, but I like that one less because of its… the stuff it’s said. Mostly because of who’s been training it. But “Grok it” sounds better than Chat/GPT it and sounds almost as good as “Google it.”
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kill them 😡
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kagi that shit my guy
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Many people I know are also using LLMs for searching stuff.
Its just baffling how they can trust a single answer frankensteind together from often unknown sources served up in a confident style.
Jeez we are fucked, aren’t we?
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My 10 yr old figured it out when googles AI couldn’t tell the difference between spiderman: miles Morales and spiderman 2. “Why is it trying to give me trophies for the old game?”
Speculater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a great lesson for them though! If it’s bad at something you’re familiar with, what else does it have wrong?
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
At least it beats googles results nowadays. At least in productivity. Instead of trying to figure out which results were vaguely congruent with my search terms and not just SEO-shit, I get shitty results instantly. And with the confidence of absolute certainty that 2 prime dunning-kruger-examples would show.
Clear winner 😁
Speculater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ChatGPT to Google/Wiki isn’t a bad workflow for factual questions.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks ago
Dead Internet theory is becoming more and more plausible by the day.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t ChatGPT also use google?
I tested this whole concept with Mistral AI. It searches the web, aggregates its findings and provides an answer highlighting potential perspectives / different answers with each one providing a link to the source URL. As much as I hate AI, it does work great that way (since the LLM doesn’t have to pull stuff out of its butt).
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Are you certain that the answer was actually from their sources? I had multiple occasions where Mistral/ChatGPT gave me sources and I felt like something was off. I then followed the sources and could not find what they found according to themselves. I then asked them to quote the actual text they used to provide said answer and after drilling them a few more times they concluded that yes, the thing they said was actually not anywhere to be found in the sources they provided.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m one of those. I would prefer to google for results, but current day google is perfectly useless even for very obvious searches…
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then use a different search engine…
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Breathtakingly fucked.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Have been long before LLMs to be fair. It’s just that we are taking on speed going down that spiral.
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agree, the internet is full of useless AI trash “informatio” and “articles”. Its more and more difficult to find accurat information.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
2 weeks ago I had an issue with my hardware Steam Link setup. For some reason picture would freeze but sound would still go. It is connected over ethernet so I ruled out connection issues. Googling lead me to nowhere. Adding “reddit” to search had no effect. Then I just decided to try chatgpt. It gave me few things I can try and lo and behold, second suggestion was what I was looking for.
There are things I would rather not ask LLMs. But when I have no clue what to even write in google search bar, I’d rather go for LLM because it can lead me to what I am searching for and from there I can continue my own research.
turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
yeah i feel that, but i also feel the guilt of using 3 glasses of water to cool down the computer that answered me.
at any rate, please do not use grok.
elon is cooling his penis computer with aquifer drinking water from the memphis sands aquifer.
he promised to build a grey water plant, but, y’all won’t believe this… he didn’t. hasn’t even broken ground on the construction.
also, he’s powering grok with generators that have led to ~74% increase in the shittiness of the air quality in memphis from generators’ exhaust pipes.
please do not use grok.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Is it really that much different from the types of people who would believe the first (often bias-confirming) answer they found on Google?
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its just sad that people who know how internet search works for the sake of comfort let someone else decide what they see when searching for stuff.
Stupid people and internet illiterate people exist since the dawn of the internet. Thats not news.
Whats scary is how a new generation of people will lose or not develop basic critical thinking and research skills, and let an algorithm serve up content to them.