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In days of old when knights were bold and wizards stayed up late (lemmy.world)
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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There was this sweet spot where you could both ask it a question in almost natural language, but also use very simple operators to fine tune your results massively.

Then SEO became an offshoot of marketing, and it started to get worse and worse, until 90% of it was sponsored content of some sort

Now, I have no idea what's going on. It's like search engines have collectively decided "hey, remember that thing when we helped people find information they were looking for? What if we just didn't do that anymore?"

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just go to Wikipedia now, fuck them search engines.

Actually, their current events section is a great way to get the gist of things without giving clicks to corpo fearmongers.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

I'll check that out, my questions are mostly very specific technical ones unfortunately. But after I forbid myself from Reddit, I do feel like I could use some new info streams...I feel healthier using Lemmy, but there is a bias... a bias I tend to agree with, but you need multiple viewpoints to circle in on the actual truth

Personally, I've been using language models. Not good for current streams, but for general, or even specific knowledge? Hugging faces hosts a ton of AI, if you find one trained for a specific purpose you can get pretty decent results directly.

Your mileage may vary, obviously