Anyone else experience this?

You run into a niche or weird issue. So you google “how to x”, “y not working on z” or “Error code: 123”; The 1st, 2nd, 3rd page are infected, probably 90% AI slop. Don’t have any luck even with the one blog post that was probably written by a human.

Now I have to go to YouTube. Look for a tutorial, 1st, 2nd, 3rd video all AI. AI voice, AI avatar, bot comments like “😍😍😍”.

Finally I reach a real video from a year or two ago that actually solved my issue. Took 4 hours when normally I could find it in 1 hour tops.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    So I was dubious about this as well, but it turns out, it’s actually rather well thought-out.

    Each plan comes with AI support, but you don’t have to use it and it’s not enabled by default. So like, you search for “pizza toppings”, and you get a bunch of pages talking about pizza and their toppings:

    There’s no unsolicited “AI” box at the top telling you to put rocks on there or anything insane like that. The availability of AI is there though, if you’re into that sort of thing. Click the “Quick answer” button and you get something like this:

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    There’s likely a way to directly invoke AI via their bang syntax (similar to DDG’s), but I don’t know what that is, 'cause I don’t use it.

    Either way, you can sign up and they give you 100 searches for free. You can trial it yourself if you like.