• @FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    1711 months ago

    Most search engines are practically unusable due to the massive amount of garbage AI generated sites that take up the search results while having just platantly false information.

    • TherouxSonfeir
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      -1511 months ago

      I haven’t used a search engine since I started using ChatGPT. It does all the heavy lifting for me.

      • @hoot@lemmy.ca
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        1211 months ago

        I am concerned to think of all the terrible and just plain wrong information you have been given.

      • @FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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        1111 months ago

        The problem with using it as a search engine is that if it doesn’t know the answer it commonly makes things up. I tried using it for work but it got details wrong enough to make it useless.

        • TherouxSonfeir
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          -811 months ago

          You can’t trust search engine results either. It’s just another tool that you use to arrive at a conclusion. You still have to do work.

          • @FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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            511 months ago

            You could in the past. About 6 years ago or so the top 3 results were almost always correct.

            Currently you can’t because of the AI generated content that gets things wrong the same way as using an AI as a search engine.