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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://saturation.social/users/clive/statuses/111603539904061496">Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 06:46:09 JST</a><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" title="clive@saturation.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/21777-48-20230219204149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Clive Thompson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Clive Thompson</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>Man, the "dead internet" is arriving</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne">@bhawthorne</a> describes his recent experience searching for basic info online -- he looked for the temperature to roast hazelnuts, and got nothing but stochastic-parrot garbage: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056</a></p><p>He concludes:</p><p>"I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past."</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2470706#notice-4888425">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-12-19T06:46:09+09:00" title="Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 06:46:09 JST">about 11 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/111603539904061496" rel="external" title="Sent from saturation.social via ActivityPub">saturation.social</a></span></span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/111603539904061496">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056He">Brian Hawthorne (@bhawthorne@infosec.exchange)</a></h5><div> from <span>Brian Hawthorne</span></div></header><div>How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites? 
Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 06:46:09 JSTClive Thompson
- Brian Hawthorne
Man, the "dead internet" is arriving
@bhawthorne describes his recent experience searching for basic info online -- he looked for the temperature to roast hazelnuts, and got nothing but stochastic-parrot garbage: https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056
He concludes:
"I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past."
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  How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites? Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures. So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there. I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.

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