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Has search just become completely extinct? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by deforestgump@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I’ve used DuckduckGo for at least a decade. When they started embedding their little AI summary thing at the top of the chat I knew it was coming. But recently, it seems when I search anything I get tons of the same slop, SEO pumped, AI generated info pages. There was a time when I would at least stumble upon an old HTML article from a university or something. Everything sucks now. Do they even make encyclopedia books anymore?

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 66 points 2 days ago

Internet searching was going down the tube well before AI because of SEO slop but now AI has accelerated that tremendously.

The AI search assistant could be used to help mitigate the slop but you're basically just having the AI sift through the bullshit for you and hope it doesn't hallucinate some bullshit for you.