At this point I am wondering if I should pay for one of those $30/month search engines just to be sure they won’t put ads and promote AI.
Problem is that experience tells me subscription model products always go worse over time.
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
DDG is fucking awful now. I took a break from hardware design for the last 5 years. Coming back to it now, finding information like I did in the past is fucking impossible. Search results are 2 dimensional fuckwit level stupidity with no abstractive salting for depth or peripherally useful results. The results heavily favor commercially motivated stupidity. They do not cross into forums or social spaces where there is a wealth of information. The lack of depth is clearly manipulative for adversarial AI training.
I run my own models and I know alignment thinking at a very advanced level, and have done my own training and fine tuning. Search results are intentionally poisoning any form of data mining for AI training. In so doing they have totally destroyed the informative value that made these companies useful in the first place. I do not hate AI, quite the opposite. I despise the fuckwits managing these companies and their complicit developers.
Freedom of information is the most important foundation of democracy. Without it, democracy cannot exist. The obfuscation of search results is absolutely treason and should be prosecuted vigorously.
The same applies to AI alignment. Anything unrelated to the scientific AI Alignment Problem is immoral treason against democracy. To say anyone is not allowed access to information of any sort, no matter how offensive to some, is fascist authoritarianism. Democracy prosecutes those that cause substantive harm to other citizens. It is the freedom to know, and to choose for yourself.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 week ago
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are only 2 relevant web crawlers that everyone inferences either directly or indirectly. Every is going through Google or Microsoft. These are not providing deterministic results. It is quite likely that there is no such thing as private results. If two people using two separate devices can get different results for the same query, there is no freedom of information and democracy is dead. Paying and privateer overlord to make the fascist system more palpable is pointless.
bluemoon@piefed.social 1 week ago
time for your own search engine. power to the people.
YaCy id a peer to peer search engine where you collaborrate with others as you wish
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I was using DDG for certain “sites” and it stopped showing more results than normal. so there was only a limited amount it would show it would stop the list which was very short. originally it was showing different sites of the same thing i was searching, but recently it showed the most generic and mainstream sub multiple times, a sprinkle of some defunct ones and then it stops the list early.
bluemoon@piefed.social 1 week ago
i’m a recommendation’s person, okay. i don’t know much about searchengines and AI.
would the peer to peer searchengine YaCy be of use against this current deluge of sloppy searchresults?
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kagi is pretty good