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Fuck AI
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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I have resorted to using googles ai summary sometimes. I primarily use duck duck with no ai but it doesn't always do the trick, especially if you are shopping.
Doesn't help I am banned from reddit now and i can't see the results on my VPN. If i want to see the reddit post I have to search the post out on red reader becairuse the link feature doesn't work. Googles gemeni's summaries are 90% reddit anyways.
I have started looking into buying a service that let's you do your own searches but I'm not sure its for me. I just try to be as cognitive as possible when using it. I'll run another google search rephrase everything and ask gemeni again if everything is legit and let it find other sources if its info that needs to be static. I'll still read what gemeni tells me, but if there's a nonreddit source I'll try to read the source too and generally that forces me to have a better understanding having read it twice.
I don't trust it to provide me links, or many other things and there is a lot you still want to find out yourself. Like maybe don't use it to figure out what's the real link for your health insurance web page, or the fitgirl repacker site. Just before ai when I had to search an obscure problem for Linux or something niche I would end up on reddit digging through many posts and reading all the comments, searching through peoples profiles, etc. That's my biggest use case.
Since you mentioned RedReader I read you are talking Android web searches.
I just tested and mobile Firefox supports LibRedirect extension to see reddit content via assorted mirror websites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/libredirect/
The settings interface is wonky on mobile, but it takes about a minute total to set up and use.
I too got around this 90% argument when I was isolated from everything but LLM-enabled search, and I think I'm too addicted to see the whole comment section before deciding on something suggested. Something in this and that platforms got me hooked. It just doesn't feel right to get bland summaries instead.