• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    7 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.

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      7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

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

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        7 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.

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          7 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.

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            7 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.