Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I wonder if it’s just AI. I know some people moved to backing up older versions of Wikipida via Kiwix out of fear that the site gets censored.
tb_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Search engines will still give Wikipedia results at the top for relevant searches. Heck, you can search Wikipedia itself directly!
Both Ecosia and DuckDuckGo support some form of “bangs”, if I tack
!wonto my search it’ll immediate go through to Wikipedia.DuckDuckGo has even introduced an AI image filter, which is not perfect but still pretty good.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Bangs are helpful, but my problem is that I previously used search engines to find informative articles and product suggestions beyond the scope of Wikipedia, and so much of that is AI slop now. And if it’s not that, Reddit shows up disproportionately in search results and Google is dominated by promoted posts.
Search engines used to be really good at connecting people to reliable resources, even if you didn’t have a specific website in mind, if you were good with keywords/boolean and had a discerning eye for reliable content, but now the slop-to-valuable-content ratio is too disproportionate. So you either need to have pre-memorized a list of good websites, rely on Chatbots, or take significantly longer wading through the muck.
tb_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This blacklist is a pretty neat way to block a good amount of those AI slop results.