The type of AI I want one that runs locally and blocks ads. But it blocks them pretending that they showed correctly and feeds useless bullshit to trackers.
I just want to know if pineapple is poisonous for my dog. I don’t need paragraphs upon paragraphs of slop about what a dog is, what poison is, what a pineapple is, a hallucinated history lesson on how dogs came to be, the nutritional benefits of fruits in general, then ending off with how apples are not only safe for humans to eat, but they are delicious as well.
This is pre “ai” as it’s now being sold. Machine written websites written to hit search results, an enshitification I noticed particularly around 2021, becoming ubiquitous.
You nailed the trajectory of these now worthless articles though, and quick answers are now removed off of the search page, AI summaries only providing them, to force us to use it unless we want to wade through machine written garbage articles.
I refuse to use ai like that, they can eat dick (more of it.)
This is the sort of information that is fucking impossible to find nowadays. There was a sweet spot from like 2001-2016 where you could easily find a reliable answer to that sort of question
Ironically, the AI summary solves this exact problem in many cases. “How do I do <thing>?” — “You do <x> to achieve <thing>” — “Oh, right” (closes the tab instead of reading about the history of <thing>).
Of course, I wouldn’t trust it with life-altering situations, and neither would I trust random blogs. I’d consult some kinda dog-oriented WebMD.
This is why I use AI for search now. Even with Kagi most of the results are massive hunks of either AI or human generated slop, so I might as well just generate the slop myself and get something more concise, and when the AI does do search it can filter through the bullshit a lot faster
The type of ai I want in a search is one that runs on the indexing to detect ai slop written sites and drops them to the bottom of the search results.
The type of AI I want one that runs locally and blocks ads. But it blocks them pretending that they showed correctly and feeds useless bullshit to trackers.
Is anyone working on that?
I just want to know if pineapple is poisonous for my dog. I don’t need paragraphs upon paragraphs of slop about what a dog is, what poison is, what a pineapple is, a hallucinated history lesson on how dogs came to be, the nutritional benefits of fruits in general, then ending off with how apples are not only safe for humans to eat, but they are delicious as well.
Send these websites to the shadow realm.
This is pre “ai” as it’s now being sold. Machine written websites written to hit search results, an enshitification I noticed particularly around 2021, becoming ubiquitous.
You nailed the trajectory of these now worthless articles though, and quick answers are now removed off of the search page, AI summaries only providing them, to force us to use it unless we want to wade through machine written garbage articles.
I refuse to use ai like that, they can eat dick (more of it.)
This is the sort of information that is fucking impossible to find nowadays. There was a sweet spot from like 2001-2016 where you could easily find a reliable answer to that sort of question
Ironically, the AI summary solves this exact problem in many cases. “How do I do <thing>?” — “You do <x> to achieve <thing>” — “Oh, right” (closes the tab instead of reading about the history of <thing>).
Of course, I wouldn’t trust it with life-altering situations, and neither would I trust random blogs. I’d consult some kinda dog-oriented WebMD.
This is why I use AI for search now. Even with Kagi most of the results are massive hunks of either AI or human generated slop, so I might as well just generate the slop myself and get something more concise, and when the AI does do search it can filter through the bullshit a lot faster
Your “Artificial Intelligence” is reading the Slop and generating more slop. It’s slop all the way down.
The slop it generates is more useful that the slop it reads though, and there aren’t really many places that aren’t slop nowadays
The SEO spam was bad before AI. AI just made it worse.