Look at this shit (first paragraph of body of article):
“Automatic watches are admired for their intricate mechanics and timeless appeal, but even the finest timepieces can sometimes run fast or slow. If you’ve noticed your automatic watch gaining or losing time, you’re not.”
First search result on DDG. Thank you, automatic watch expert and real person Hnin Oo Thazin. We may need a whole ass new internet.
https://mtscwatch.com/blog/why-your-automatic-watch-runs-fast-or-slow-and-how-to-fix-it
Whenever I need to look up general information, I filter to only show pages from before 2022. It removes the AI trash instantly.
Most general topics haven’t changed appreciably in the past 3 years.
thats great, the internet ended as a way to research a topic 3 years ago :(
Books are being written with AI. Legislation is being written with AI. Lawyer arguments are being written with AI. Scholarly research is being written with AI.
Pretty sure it’s not just the internet.
I’ve been doing the same thing but I’m still having some AI results pop up even with this. Maybe people are faking the publish date on their site or something, I don’t know.
I imagine a future where children speak of the “before times” and how when there was information on a thing called “paper” and how it wasn’t created by slop generators.