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Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders

28 points by petetnt 2y ago

womble 2y ago
Little known fact: "Pulumi" is a Zulu word for "unusually large pile of elephant droppings."
- bglazer 2y ago
  Is this actually true?
neilv 2y ago
You can get rid of some of the LLM garbage (and plagiarizing) by tracking who's doing it, and penalizing them. In search results. Also in hiring.
deleted 2y ago
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S0y 2y ago
I think the main issue is it seems no one even bothers to check if what the LLM just spat out is factually correct. It kind astonishes me how little some people seem to doubt whatever the AI is telling them.
squigz 2y ago
I've been frustrated by shitty auto-generated SEO spam for many years. I really don't see a difference at this point.
jerlam 2y ago
Every day, paying for search like Kagi looks like a better option.
- arturkesik 2y ago
  just went over free 100 searches and paid for unlimited searches. The results are so good! Especially since google has been causing me so much frustration! I remember using google many years ago and seeing better results then I see today!
- fiatjaf 2y ago
  That is true, using Kagi I really don't have this problem.
ChrisArchitect 2y ago
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198258
jonny_eh 2y ago
This is the real enshittification of the internet.
renegat0x0 2y ago
I started gathering domains to see for myself the state of the Internet https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database I have many observations. One is that I cannot see aby useful amiga links. I had to manually search them for some time. Some parts of the old internet exist, but are buried. Second is that spam sites are everywhere. Not only AI generated. Next is that personal sites exist, but they are often boring. Also 'CV sites' are a waste of time for me. I wonder how many of them are fake. Many sites have poorly set up HTML meta fields, title, description. How anybody is supposed to find them? I prefer going to passionate personal site about programming tips that reading content farms. It is difficult to find such sites.

28 points by petetnt 2y ago

womble 2y ago

Little known fact: "Pulumi" is a Zulu word for "unusually large pile of elephant droppings."

bglazer 2y ago
Is this actually true?

neilv 2y ago

You can get rid of some of the LLM garbage (and plagiarizing) by tracking who's doing it, and penalizing them. In search results. Also in hiring.

deleted 2y ago

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S0y 2y ago

I think the main issue is it seems no one even bothers to check if what the LLM just spat out is factually correct. It kind astonishes me how little some people seem to doubt whatever the AI is telling them.

squigz 2y ago

I've been frustrated by shitty auto-generated SEO spam for many years. I really don't see a difference at this point.

jerlam 2y ago

Every day, paying for search like Kagi looks like a better option.

arturkesik 2y ago
just went over free 100 searches and paid for unlimited searches. The results are so good! Especially since google has been causing me so much frustration! I remember using google many years ago and seeing better results then I see today!
fiatjaf 2y ago
That is true, using Kagi I really don't have this problem.

ChrisArchitect 2y ago

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198258

jonny_eh 2y ago

This is the real enshittification of the internet.

renegat0x0 2y ago

I started gathering domains to see for myself the state of the Internet https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database I have many observations. One is that I cannot see aby useful amiga links. I had to manually search them for some time. Some parts of the old internet exist, but are buried. Second is that spam sites are everywhere. Not only AI generated. Next is that personal sites exist, but they are often boring. Also 'CV sites' are a waste of time for me. I wonder how many of them are fake. Many sites have poorly set up HTML meta fields, title, description. How anybody is supposed to find them? I prefer going to passionate personal site about programming tips that reading content farms. It is difficult to find such sites.