Post #1748757
2026-01-28 06:30 UTC
Replies (5)
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@SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 08:02
That was the plan. That's (I'm guessing) why the search results have slowly yet noticeably degraded since Ai has been consumer level. They WANT you to use Ai so they can cater the answers. (tin foil hat) I really do believe that though. Call me a conspiracy theorist but damn it, it fits.
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@CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 17:55
I know some of them personally and they usually claim to have decent to very good media literacy too. I would even say some of them are possibly more intelligent than me. Well, usually they are but when it comes to tech, they miss the forest for the trees I think.
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@gerryflap@feddit.nl 2026-01-28 08:33
For some issues, especially related to programming and Linux, I feel like I kinda have to at this point. Google seems to have become useless, and DDG was never great to begin with but is arguably better than Google now. I've had some very obscure issues that I spent quite some time searching for, only to drop it into ChatGPT and get a link to some random forum post that discusses it. The biggest one was a Linux kernel regression that was posted on the same day in the Arch Linux forums somewhere. Despite having a hunch about what it could be and searching/struggling for over an hour, I couldn't find anything. ChatGPT then managed to link me the post (and a suggested fix: switching to LTS kernel) in less than minute. For general purpose search tho, hell no. If I want to know factual data that's easy to find I'll rely on the good old search engine. And even if I have to use an LLM, I don't really trust it unless it gives me links to the information or I can verify that what it says is true.
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@truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 2026-01-28 06:52
I use kagi assistant. It does a search, summarizes, then gives references to the origin of each claim. Genuinely useful.
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@evol@lemmy.today 2026-01-28 06:51
what makes it creepy?