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> So many of the websites are just noise with crappy information. What I hate the most about today's internet is how search engines allow blatant scrapers to f
by roqi 3y ago
> So many of the websites are just noise with crappy information.
What I hate the most about today's internet is how search engines allow blatant scrapers to feature so high in search results. So many times I Google for something to find Stack Overflow as the main search hits, and right next to it there are a couple of sites that copied Stack Overflow's questions verbatim. Once I googled for FLOSS projects I had on GitHub and lo and behold there were half a dozen obscure sites that also claim to host my project, with everything copied verbatim from git repo to project descriptions.
- zamadatix 3y agoIt's better than one thing at least: Internet scraping is the process of... you can already see where this is going. Sites with 6 pages of boilerplate that sounds like an 6th grader padded an essay around a 2 word answer they've scraped from somewhere else. Worst of the 2 words of content aren't even all that accurate most of the time. At least sites that copy the answer verbatim still give you the answer!
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoThe scary thing is those websites will only become more common (and factually incorrect) as LLMs become more and more accessible.