I mean if I have to read the slop, I’ll still need to read Wikipedia to verify the accuracy. Just take me to the real info.

There are people at google, people with names and addresses, who have collectively made the world incalculably shittier. I hope they get what they deserve.

Ed Zitron wrote a long post about some asshole in particular who shit it all up: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Polite reminder that it is possible to change the search engines your browser uses. I recommend Mozilla Firefox with No AI DuckDuckGo. I want to write down tips, because this was not so easy for me the first time I did it..

So anyone can do this by following these steps;

1. Click the three vertical stripes and go to "Settings"
2. Click "Search"
3. Scroll until you see "Additional search engines"
4. Click the "+ Add search engine"
5. Write down a name and add this link (without 25) in the URL bar = https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
6. Add the engine
7. Go back up to "Default search engine" and change it to the one you just created
8. Enjoy slightly better internet (optional)

// FUQ I can't edit this right no matter what I do, but remove the 25 from the link manually!

In Google search you can append -ai to only return links. Like the Google of the golden age. Real links.

Especially when you can see its sourcing information from what a deleted account said on a reddit post

Casual reminder that search engines integrating Wikipedia was just before they integrated quick answers, and then full-on AI answers, too.

Ironically, Wikipedia has been exactly where it started. So, if you truly want to follow God's ways, click the actual links to various sites and read them through. This is the peak search engine experience.

(All love to Wikipedia, it's a nice source)

Neverslop gang!

Besides https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ there is also https://mojeek.com/ & https://marginalia-search.com/ that can provide this

That is true for me. I enjoy using my brain and I love to read. Ai summaries are like when kids would read the cliff notes instead of the book.

AI often gives unnecessarily verbose definitions of words. if it can't handle that small task, then what else is it failing at?

Everything in the world requires more than just pattern recognition unless you want the worst possible experience.

The current incarnation of AI is just like a super neurodivergent person. Not sure what we need it for other than to take over jobs. But I'm sure it'll go sentient any day now lol.

The weird thing about AI is that if some computer was a god and had all of human knowledge and history yet could think like a human, wouldn't its first order of business be to not destroy humanity as a whole but the wealthy?

Even a high school dropout can figure out that Mexican laborers are more essential than [name of billionaire.]

The use startpage instead of google

goes to Google

searches Google

gets the results from Google

becomes angry at the results in Google

Why do you not simply go to Wikipedia and search directly on Wikipedia?

your silly. you read so you use books people used to sit and tell storys around campfires when books came they resisted if not for books there been no internet for you to post this nonsense