the current state of search engines (music video)
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What’s your opinion? Does google really “not work” anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it’s own way i feel…

  • TheOtherJake@beehaw.orgEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    Google is broken because AI is making it obsolete. I bet in 10 years google will be a historical footnote.

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      AI is driving me mad. Pages and pages of generative text filled articles with nothing to say drive all the humans away.

      Ironically, because Lemmy is so hard to index for search engines, it keeps the AI content spammers away. Mostly. So far.

      • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Hard agree with you on that. AI generated articles are a disaster for the internet. There’s just no quality control any more, especially when actual authoritative sites are no longer in the top search results. Now we’ve got tons more crap-tier content on the internet and no way to differentiate it from the useful content.

    • phi1997@kbin.social
      15·
      1 year ago

      You’re talking about the AI that provides accurate-sounding results but can’t fact-check and is also used to generate the kind of spam that’s constantly being pushed by search engines, right?

      • TheOtherJake@beehaw.org
        4·
        1 year ago

        Not exactly. Stupid people with advanced tools make stupid outputs. Venture capital is pushing the propaganda sauce hard and a lot of stupid people are jumping on AI as a corporate trend. These are the idiots.

        The tools are next level. We are on the edge of this tech becoming a really big deal. There are several research papers making breakthroughs regularly and making double digit percentile improvements on efficiency and accuracy. The reason it is a big deal is because you can have around 1/4 of the knowledge of the entire internet running on hardware as powerful as a current flagship phone. Sure it lies around 1/2 the time, but these are problems that are being solved. Like, the latest and greatest models are ancient history in a matter of 2-3 weeks. To be honest, have a casual conversation with an offline and uncensored LLM. You may know it is lying from time to time, but if you’re being objective, so are most humans you encounter under casual circumstances. The sociological function and potential value of this tech is pretty powerful medicine. Like if you need someone to talk to, or to talk out an issue in private, this is a way to make that happen.

      • gelberhut@lemdro.id
        2·
        1 year ago

        Well. Some time ago one had similar arguments about manually categorized web site catalogs and algorithm driven search engines.

        Today’s ai are not areplacment, but in ten years … rather likely.