Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now
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That is my entire problem with llms and llm based tools. I get especially salty when someone sends me output from one and I confirm it's lying in 2 minutes.
"Thank you for wasting my time."
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Yes it sucks. And it’s not the only one. I’ve recently been seeing scam ‘official site’ of a real site. Then in another occasion it was looking for a product. I couldn’t remember if it was just .com or .net. The product was not even within the first two pages of results.
I also tried DuckDuckGo.
Meanwhile I tried Kagi, first result for both, each time. I was swapping to Linux and didn’t have my Kagi login handy at the time. Anyway
It’s a HUGE difference today in search. To find what you need through all this other extra shit. Good Search is more important now than ever imho.
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You can do unit conversions with powertoys on windows, spotlight on mac and whatever they call the nifty search bar on various Linux desktop environments without even hitting the internet with exactly the same convenience as an llm. Doing discrete things like that with an llm inference is the most inefficient and stupid way to do them.
All things were doable before. The point is that they were manual extra steps.
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All things were doable before. The point is that they were manual extra steps.
They weren't though. You put stuff in the search bar and it detected you were asking about unit conversion and gave you an answer, without ever involving an llm. Are you being dense on purpose?
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You can do unit conversions with powertoys on windows, spotlight on mac and whatever they call the nifty search bar on various Linux desktop environments without even hitting the internet with exactly the same convenience as an llm. Doing discrete things like that with an llm inference is the most inefficient and stupid way to do them.
On Linux there's also 'units' which is amazing for this.
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It might be able to give you tables or otherwise collated sets of information about multiple products etc.
I don't know if Google does, but LLMs can. Also do unit conversions. You probably still want to check the critical ones. It's a bit like using an encyclopedia or a catalog except more convenient and even less reliable.
Or go to Wolfram Alpha and gat actual computations done instead of ramblings?
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Oh, just wait. AI will all be tweaked to sell you shit.
It's only a matter of time before product placement in AI generated photos and videos becomes a thing, too.
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I do not know how to even shop anymorem All the name brands I know have gotten worse, most of the new brands are unknown and have AI reviews.
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Yes it sucks. And it’s not the only one. I’ve recently been seeing scam ‘official site’ of a real site. Then in another occasion it was looking for a product. I couldn’t remember if it was just .com or .net. The product was not even within the first two pages of results.
I also tried DuckDuckGo.
Meanwhile I tried Kagi, first result for both, each time. I was swapping to Linux and didn’t have my Kagi login handy at the time. Anyway
It’s a HUGE difference today in search. To find what you need through all this other extra shit. Good Search is more important now than ever imho.
Feels like we're heading back to the early 90s, before search engines, with pages that are just a bunch of curated links to other pages
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