These are just two videos in my current YouTube recommendations, but scrolling down the page I can see more stuff talking about the negative impact of 'AI' in general.
I don't give a fuck if 'AI' is good at writing that fucking little summary for you, if the bad outweighs the good, you take 'AI' in the backyard and you put it down like the rabid dog it is.
And don't even start singing the Silicon Valley ballad, "It'll get better". Look around you — is there anything getting better today?
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@morrick I gave this a hard thought. There are three things getting better but you won't like the last two:
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@jgordon @morrick I agree with the first two, but I think that Perplexity still has a number of glaring issues when it comes to research, the main one for me being that its results are (by the nature of it being a LLM at its core) not truly reproducible. There will always be subtle but impactful differences between multiple searches on the same query, which is a huge issue I have experienced using it to look up non-trivial information, and for subjects that are less talked about on the surface-web (think niche academic subjects) it tends to either overly generalise or get things wrong in subtle but impactful ways. By extension the lack of any proper index search syntax really hampers narrowing down sources. I bring this up because I believe search engines to be important outside of just general fact-checking.
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@plasmawiz @jgordon Yes, and I believe that performing manual searches using search engines, comparing information, checking sources, is a skill we should keep honing instead of giving in to automated convenience at every turn. I'm really afraid that more and more people will just lazily accept whatever food for thought 'AI' serves them, with a progressive attenuation of critical thinking. And this is definitely NOT the era when we should stop thinking critically.
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I think returns on search engine skills are decreasing as the Google-mediated web decays.
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@jgordon @plasmawiz I have not been using Google for search since circa 2020. DuckDuckGo is my main search engine, and while it was underwhelming when it debuted and during its first years, it has improved significantly over time and has become pretty capable.
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