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Big news! Many apps will be integrating ChatGPT. Worried about AI-generated content flood the search engine, making it harder to do in-depth research.

ngokevin 4y ago
Honestly, I've almost stopped Googling and have had personal success just relying on ChatGPT. It's pretty much taught me 3D animation and Blender to Unity workflows. Every time I wanted to know a Blender keyboard shortcut or what some Blender property was, or how to do something in Blender, the forums and documentation is so sparse and outdated. I felt ChatGPT got me a lot closer much faster. Especially when it tells you how to learn concepts you didn't even know existed. Google results in the meanwhile have just become a pile of SEO-optimized fluff, and it's hard to engineer the search query around that besides sticking "reddit" on the end of it.
r3trohack3r 4y ago
This is a good thing. The future is curation and cultivation. We've been living in an age of information abundance and markets haven't adapted. The age of "crawl every website, index everything, and let people search it" is coming to an end. There is just too much content and too much of it is low quality. With or without AI. This abundance problem isn't just a WWW problem. Movies, TV, music, podcasts, short form content, food, widgets, wibbles and wobbles all suffer from abundance these days. We are quickly exiting the age of supply chain driven scarcity and getting a marketplace flooded with options. Capitalism has delivered on basically everything it's promised with some asterisks and, if we don't give into consumerism, we want for little and have everything we need at our fingertips. I've personally opened up my pocket book to curation services. I know brands that I trust. I know services that reliably surface quality content. I suspect the next few decades are going to trend towards services that separate noise from signal - and I suspect AI is going to be a big part of that.
- bluefone 4y ago
  Why separate noise from signal? Why isn't AI-generated stuff seen just as valuable as human-written one? When you fill the world with plastic, you need to evolve to eat plastic. When you surround yourself with AI-produced stuff, then you should learn to respect it. First of all, evaluating someone based on what they wrote or said or did, is nonsense.
  - r3trohack3r 4y ago
    I think we agree. Humans can generate noise and AI can generate signal.
shostack 4y ago
If I'm Microsoft, while I have Bing Search, I don't need it as much as Google needs Google Search as I have tons of other revenue streams. Hurting Google by speeding the proliferation of this is going to be really interesting to watch.

ngokevin 4y ago

Honestly, I've almost stopped Googling and have had personal success just relying on ChatGPT. It's pretty much taught me 3D animation and Blender to Unity workflows. Every time I wanted to know a Blender keyboard shortcut or what some Blender property was, or how to do something in Blender, the forums and documentation is so sparse and outdated. I felt ChatGPT got me a lot closer much faster. Especially when it tells you how to learn concepts you didn't even know existed. Google results in the meanwhile have just become a pile of SEO-optimized fluff, and it's hard to engineer the search query around that besides sticking "reddit" on the end of it.

r3trohack3r 4y ago

This is a good thing. The future is curation and cultivation. We've been living in an age of information abundance and markets haven't adapted. The age of "crawl every website, index everything, and let people search it" is coming to an end. There is just too much content and too much of it is low quality. With or without AI. This abundance problem isn't just a WWW problem. Movies, TV, music, podcasts, short form content, food, widgets, wibbles and wobbles all suffer from abundance these days. We are quickly exiting the age of supply chain driven scarcity and getting a marketplace flooded with options. Capitalism has delivered on basically everything it's promised with some asterisks and, if we don't give into consumerism, we want for little and have everything we need at our fingertips. I've personally opened up my pocket book to curation services. I know brands that I trust. I know services that reliably surface quality content. I suspect the next few decades are going to trend towards services that separate noise from signal - and I suspect AI is going to be a big part of that.

bluefone 4y ago
Why separate noise from signal? Why isn't AI-generated stuff seen just as valuable as human-written one? When you fill the world with plastic, you need to evolve to eat plastic. When you surround yourself with AI-produced stuff, then you should learn to respect it. First of all, evaluating someone based on what they wrote or said or did, is nonsense.
- r3trohack3r 4y ago
  I think we agree. Humans can generate noise and AI can generate signal.

shostack 4y ago

If I'm Microsoft, while I have Bing Search, I don't need it as much as Google needs Google Search as I have tons of other revenue streams. Hurting Google by speeding the proliferation of this is going to be really interesting to watch.