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Has anyone ever had a bot on a website answer their question? (kbin.run)

submitted 4 months ago by strawberry@kbin.run to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think i did once, but this was honestly a question i could have found the answer to on their site i just didnt wanna look

its always some vague bullshit that doesnt help

dunno im just kinda mad that they shove this shit in your face, make it hard to get to a real person

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

I like the approach this dev is taking with his PDF search app:

You can search in natural language, but it doesn’t try to give you an answer. It simply highlights what’s already there, even when you didn’t know the exact phrasing used in the source document.

Software can try to give me a summary with citations, but I’m gonna have to click the citations. So forget the summary, just show what would be cited! Great tech, all local in this case - hard to be “anti-AI” (common sentiment) when AI can just mean “search real good no matter which words you use.”