And then everyone applauded.
The fact is though the average person is starting to replace their search engine with chatgpt, gemini, grok or whatever other llm and I have seen more and more small association using generative ai to make their posters instead of working with artist or doing it themselves.
Is this because LLMs are getting better, or because search engines are getting worse?
Because they are definitely getting worse. I get redirected to a brand new slopsite daily.
It’s because people thinks AI is like those in the movies (cause it’s been advertised so, too), omniscient and infallible. A short while ago I overheard a “imagine, even the AI didn’t know it!” which normally would be “Your search didn’t return any results”.
Search engines have peaked in early 2010s and hav been deteriorating ever since, becoming virtually unusable since ~2020.
Seriously, google has become unusabe without adding “site:reddit.com” to almost every search. I would like to see something like Perplexity be compared to a proper search engine - if it existed.
everything peaked in the 2010s ;)
I agree with the concern for Reddit in responses. Many times include the shit posts.
AI slop has just accelerated the downfall of search engines. Attention based economy, advertising and SEO are the reason you can’t find anything useful anymore. The Internet itself is broken and even if there was a good search engine it would struggle to not suffocate in the seo crap out there.
At this point, I am willing to pay a subscription for a search engine if it’s ad-free and shows me what I’m looking for.
Kagi, searxng, startpage, ddg if lazy…
Kagi is great but paid and some people have feeling about then using yandex.
There are so many solutions. People are lazy and keep using trash Google that doesnt even work. People ask me how in the world I find things. Because I am literate and I know how to use a computer. Its not hard guys.
Kagi sounds like what I’m looking for. Will consider it. Thanks for the information!
I never said llm’s or generative ai is good. I was talking about post just being wishfull thinking.
A good blogpost on this: The Enclosure feedback loop
When everybody uses AI to search, it becomes a closed system that holds all info. Doesn’t need to be productive, but it gatekeeps the knowledge that was free on the internet. It’s a self-reinforcing loop.
I work in infrastructure and what’s concerning is that younger guys are skipping learning to script to automate processes and instead just getting slop from LLMs that they have no idea what it’s doing.
Some have also relegated learning problem solving to it as well so when things go wrong, they’re clueless without it.
Google started making their search engine worse and always pushing things that they thought would make them money. It’s not surprising people are trying something else.
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“Enshittified”; a new descriptor for my vocabulary. 😀
This absolutely did not happen.
I’m reading AI Engineering by Chip Huyen and it’s an excellent read. As a technologist, I find the topic fascinating and would enjoy building AI agents. While not a silver bullet, generative models definitely represent technological progress and can boost productivity when used correctly. It’s just that as with everything else, the billionaires want to milk it for everything it’s worth and more to the point of crashing the economy and destroying supply chains for their own selfish interests. We just can’t have nice things.
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Then everyone in class stood up and clapped.
It’s a meme, but at least in my childhood it did occasionally happen, the “whole class clapping” thing. One time I did really good in a second year Spanish class end of term activity. A girl proposed on the spot, and the whole class clapped. Intensely embarrassing but, as far as I can recall, it was not even sarcastic.
It’s the same as the crypto-blockchain-NFT bullshit. A bunch of idiots with too much money put down on it, then when it doesn’t become the hit they expect they start with the propaganda about how it’s the greatest thing, and then when THAT fails they just take away other choices or try to cram it into everything anyhow
The problem is that the propaganda is working. Despite what this meme implies, many many people do use and like AI chat bots and in my line of work, I am asked nearly daily which AI is the best to use and how users can have their own AI that answers emails or mocks up ideas or how it can make their daily job easier. I’m the wrong person to ask that to but I understand why they’re asking me. I’m their IT guy. I don’t particularly care if you use AI in your job because my job is just to make sure your computer keeps working.
The mudslide of AI slop on YouTube is like digital gangrene, the brainrot has gone down the stem into the organs. We’re done as a species.
Also fuck McKinsey
It’s so shitty it ruins everything
I actually like AI very well. Get better detailed answers and still can zero in on specifics with options. If I ask three people, I get three totally different answers.
The issue I (and many) have with the technology isn’t the thing itself, but the all-consuming drive to wedge it in everywhere.
It’s a tool. Use it where it may be appropriate, and don’t demand others use it before they deem it time.
To be fair, it’s a genius robot slave.
Billionaires everywhere are shooting into the sky on rocket exhaust composed of their own semen.
If that worked I’d have been near Jupiter halfway through high school.
I could stomach the ills that come with AI if you could use it (as implemented in all the crap it’s in) without selling your soul to the data harvesters.
ALL the cool kids hate AI. You want to be cool, don’t you? Come on, everyone, let’s hate the latest marvel of technological innovation together!
It uses electricity, which nothing else does. It uses water, which is then destroyed forever and can never be used again after it’s been used once for AI. It’s occasionally wrong, which nothing else ever is. It makes billionaires richer, which nothing else ever does. It reduces your creativity, which everyone has in spades. It discourages you from thinking for yourself, unlike the mob mentality telling you to hate it.
Stop acknowledging the many positives and just accept instead that it’s only ever going to be horrible. Forever. Always in all ways. It’s time to turn off your brains and just hate AI with us. Woo! 🥳
I’ve found it useful in a couple of cases. Not useful enough that I’d ever pay for it, though, which is probably why AI still isn’t turning a profit.
Did you write this or just prompt it?
I’ve been accused of being AI (or a robot, or an alien) for decades. Let’s put it this way: this post prompted me to write this.
I only used Venice.ai because it stores everything in my browser (which I can erase immediately). It is just fun to get things off my chest and use a rubber ducky method for any issue I might be having, but it has been useless otherwise.
