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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Long ago, I'd make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I'd never have to actually click on the links.

Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn't see them in the previews and you'd have to give them traffic.

Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.

Make it stop!

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Best I can offer is https://github.com/searxng/searxng

I run it at home and have configured it as the default search engine in all my browsers.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 points 3 days ago

I used searx for at least a year, it's great

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

its also using biased sources, like blogs, and such into the slop.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Exactly. AI will take any old random slob's opinion and present it as fact.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Make it stop!

Would you accept a planned economy?