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It depends on the subject but search engines are on the decline. With so many fake website written by AI I can only see it get worse. The most extreme I can th
by mrits 3y ago
It depends on the subject but search engines are on the decline. With so many fake website written by AI I can only see it get worse.
The most extreme I can think of is when I want to find when a show comes out and I have to read 10 paragraphs from 5 different sites to realize no one knows.
- layer8 3y ago> The most extreme I can think of is when I want to find when a show comes out and I have to read 10 paragraphs from 5 different sites to realize no one knows. I found that you can be pretty sure no one knows if it’s not already right on the results page. And if the displayed quote for a link on the results page is something like “wondering when show X is coming out?”, then it’s also a safe bet that clicking that link will be useless. You learn those patterns fast, and then the search is fast as well.
- mrits 3y agoI don't disagree but having to have a learning phase for patterns sounds a bit like people clinging to an old way of things.
- jprete 3y agoYou mean like prompt engineering? What you’re describing as “clinging to an old way of things” is how every single thing has been, ever, new or old.
- mrits 3y agoI don't know why you come here and say something so obviously untrue.
- layer8 3y agoIt’s better to have a pattern than having no pattern with ChatGPT to tell when it’s hallucinating or not. I wish MLs were more useful than search engines, but they have still a long way to go to replace them (if they ever do).
- mrits 3y agoGoogle still thinks I want to click on the sites I haven't clicked on in a decade even though they are first results. Search engines have a long way to go to catch up to GPT
- xdennis 3y ago> The most extreme I can think of is when I want to find when a show comes out Yeah, I find that queries which can be answered in a sentence are the worst to find answers from search engines because all the results lengthen the response to an entire article, even when there isn't an answer.
- whimsicalism 3y agoagreed on that antipattern although fwiw chatgpt is unlikely to know the answer for questions like these either.