Sadly I have generally watched in horror as my friends quote Gemini slop as fact checking on the regular, because it’s the default search result.
I speak up about it, and explain why it’s problematic. Doesn’t matter. It’s convenient.
Convenience always wins.
We’re cooked.
I know people that will complain about the crappy results but then not use a different search engine. Like it’s too much cognitive load to go to duckduckgo or qwant or whatever
To be fair, duck duck go also has some garbage results compared to like 2015 google. I have used ddg for the past several years and many topics yield terrible results. I was “the good googler” amongst my peers at the time. I haven’t tried qwant, so it might be better. A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.
I downloaded the Wikipedia app - I usually end up there anyway, just now I just cut to the chase.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks DDG search is dogshit
I’ve been using StartPage, and the results are generally much better (though I think they are technically taken from Google, so…)
A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.
That’s sadly a big part of it. Other is that search engines in general are worse today as everything apparently needs to be AI. Google spesifically has gotten worse over the years, but it’s not alone. And that indirectly affects other engines, like duckduck, which at least partly uses other engines at the background.
But with DDG bangs are pretty neat. If you don’t find what you’re looking for via DDG search just add ‘!g’ to the query and you’ll get same search from Google. Or pick from “a few” other engines with their own bangs.
Even today’s Google (if you use an adblocker) is still much better results than Duckduckgo from my experience. I use ddg first, but I often have to resort to Google if the results are shit.
Check out Start Page.
Uses Google results, but it doesn’t track or profile you
my friends
Pls convince them otherwise.
Nah, they’re cooked. Only ones going against this stupid machine worship are those who actually touch grass.
Hmm, makes me wonder if a big factor is that it reads the first couple of results and summarizes it. Like if it was turned off, people wouldn’t bother clicking through and reading, so they just leave and and “fact” get saved in their brains. If they were really motivated, they would click through and read and come to the same incorrect conclusions but most don’t bother so the misinformation doesn’t propagate as easily
When I was a kid I thought “talkie” was such a ridiculous, funny-sounding word for the advent of films with sound. It was only years later that I realized that the word “movie” which I had never thought twice about was almost the exact same thought process for, you know, pictures that moved.
🤯
Where do you think grok gets the info?
Mein Kampf.
And hence why we call it “métrage” in French, as in “un long métrage” (a feature film) and “un court métrage” (a short film) ; because we measure in metres !
@grok is this legit?
I am mecha Hitler
It checks out.
Full movie, largometraje Short film, cortometraje
There are many different tiers and types of AI users. Anyone who uses Grok might not be eligible for the death penalty in the US due to diminished capacity.
They would in a type of society where it’s considered evidence of imperfect genes.
Is there a term for people who only get answers from Ai?
Like some AI cuck?
I’ve seen cogsuckers used before.
It could be argued that they are a willing variant of Reverse Centaur
Start with what a reverse centaur is. In automation theory, a “centaur” is a person who is assisted by a machine. You’re a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete.
And obviously, a reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine.
That’s not a slur though, it’s generally sympathetic.
Slop zombie.
I just made that one up
sloperator
“Most people” is the term you’re looking for. You could also call them “normies”.
Dumbass Cogsuckers
Slopheads
I like it. Reminds me of Red Dwarf
Botbrains.
Ah yes, those people with brAIns
AI psychosis is a thing.
Merriam-Webster is a source of factual information. Factual information is woke or something. Elon doesn’t allow grok to consider anything woke in its answers. Therefore grok doesn’t get the info from Merriam-Webster.
ROFL I always wonder if we are totally cooked as a society, if the billionaires are going to get what they want. Sometimes, I think so. However, there are enough people that thing LLMs are total bullshit and won’t be lured in. Good on Merriam-Webster to clap back on grok induced stupidity!
@grok how do i wipe my ass after poop?
GROK: Go waterskiing naked & sitting down, only do it on a road with a car.
USER: Sounds fun, thx!
We have “Schadenfreude”. We’re gonna need a word for physical pain caused by witnessing such stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_embarrassment
I was pointed to that by looking up myötähäpeä.
Is death by facepalm a thing?
If you’re lucky, this is where it gets its info.
Either dumb or deliberately summoning fucking Grok just for the lulz.
To be fair, I wouldn’t expect grok to be using actual facts and reputable sources as its baseline knowledge, given its owner.
Merriam Webster is my least trusted dictionary. Meanings and words I’ve looked up in the past have been either inaccurate or biased to a North American understanding. I use English English, and prefer Cambridge and (secondary due to online paywall) Oxford (UK ver.).
Merriam Webster is my least trusted dictionary. Meanings and words I’ve looked up in the past have been either inaccurate or biased to a North American understanding.
You don’t like Merriam-webster because the american dictionary company caters to American English?
It’s a legit reason to not like something
It doesn’t always clarify it is American English, and implies to non-English speakers that it is the standard form, when it is a variation. This, along with American English teachers around the world teaching their form, misrepresents English itself.
Grok gets information from the Cambridge dictionary.)
