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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 03:03:11 JST feld

   • SlicerDicer
   > AI and LLMs and enshittification is going to make the internet worse
   
   No, it's going to make it better. It was already terrible. I was just talking to @SlicerDicer the other day about the demise of the American Chestnut. It was a terrible blight and there are extremely few resistant trees in existence, but the timelines were all wrong on the search results we found. Wikipedia was wrong about it (although another article on Wikipedia was mostly right; it's annoying when 2 articles on Wikipedia cover nearly the same information and significantly diverge)
   
   so @SlicerDicer pulled out his book "Seeds of Woody Plants in the United States" written by the US Dept of Agriculture / Forest Service from 1974 which was a revision of the previous book in 1948. The book documented the official timeline when the blight was discovered in 1904.
   
   The internet has always been shit at telling the whole truth.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 03:13:05 JST Sexy Moon

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     • SlicerDicer
     @feld @SlicerDicer it is now an order of magnitude easier to write garbage SEO articles, I don't see how it won't get worse.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 04:01:58 JST feld

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     • SlicerDicer
     @Moon @SlicerDicer if your search engine crawls the entire internet and accepts anything it finds it will be worse.
     
     We will build special purpose search engines where we curate the sources and content. This will increase the signal to noise ratio a ton but you won't be able to search everything from one site unless we build meta-search engines again (we will)
     
     The end of the Google Search era is nigh, and we will be better off for it
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     ???? :poast_hat: (ariovistus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 04:05:04 JST ???? :poast_hat:

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     • Sexy Moon
     • SlicerDicer
     @Moon @feld @SlicerDicer People don't even remember anymore that search engines used to be good. Actually good.
     
     The information might be wrong, but that's not the fault of "the Internet". Most people IRL are also wrong, as is most information IRL.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 04:05:04 JST feld

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     • SlicerDicer
     • ???? :poast_hat:
     @Ariovistus @SlicerDicer @Moon they weren't good, they always required you to know exactly how to get it to return the types of results you want. Just knowing how to phrase your query is a skill in itself.