• cryptix
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    2 hours ago

    It works wonderfully well as a search engine, when I have to find obscure specialized info. Can always criss check once I have a idea.

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      41 minutes ago

      Because companies destroyed actual search engines in the race for billions of dollars.

      Kagi, searx are fricken awesome and much like the web in mid 2000s before corporations destroyed it.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Its not a search engine, its a data digester. Dont use it as a search engine. Despite what alphabet, micro-shit, and DDG think, AI chatbots do not now, nor will they ever make good search engines.

      This is a prime example of why access to these tools should be restricted to computer scientists and research labs. The average person doesn’t know how to use them effectively (resulting in enormous power wasted by ‘prompt engineering’), and the standard available models aren’t good at digesting non-linguistic data.

      I’m not gonna downvote you, or be like all “AI is the devil and its gonna kill us all” but people need to use it correctly or we ARE going to kill ourselves with its waste heat.

      Edit: ficksed an werd

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      Regular search engines did that 20 years ago, without blowing out the power grid.

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          And LLM’s aren’t gamed? Like Grok constantly being tweaked to not say anything inconvenient about Musk? Or ChatGPT citing absurd Reddit posts deliberately made by users to make AI responses wrong?

          AI is built from the ground up to do what they want, and they’re no better than those crappy info-scraper sites like wearethewindoezproz dot com that scrape basic info off every other site and offer it as a solution to your problem with [SOLVED] in the result title. “Did you turn it off and on again?”

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          The “people learned how to game it” is called SEO, and you’re right, they did.

          Guess what, there’s GEO to game the results of LLMs. It works just as well, is harder to spot, and traditional SEO platforms like Ahrefs and SEMRush are already training users on how to do it.

          So congrats, the argument that using LLMs for search is s good solution because people learned how to game search engines makes no sense.

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        47 minutes ago

        And now we have something better. I’m all for a better grid running on renewables though, which is the actual problem.