Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek
brotato@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
It’s good to see the sentiment growing, but anecdotally many non-technical people in my circle use LLMs frequently as search engine replacements or to do stupid shit like generate pictures and emojis. I hope that begins to decline with the general sentiment called out in this article. The sheer number of useless LLM integrations in every website, every mobile app, and hell, even smart TVs is insane. I feel like it’s causing people very real feature fatigue.
Literally the only thing I ever used AI for that was actually enjoyable and “efficient” was to make bullshit images to send in group chats, I’ve since stopped because it’s so wasteful, but I did get some laughs there. But like if I weren’t shit at animating or drawing or whatever I wouldn’t ever use that over making something myself unless it was for some dumb bullshit.
AI is just a dumb bullshit producer
illi@piefed.social 2 days ago
Search engine replacement is probably the only use case of AI for me - for the times when I don’t know exactly what I’m searching for so the conversation style is helpful.
INeedANewUserName@piefed.social 2 days ago
Is it the conversational style? or that search engines have been designed to be actively worse to keep your eyeballs spending more time looking at advertisements now?
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I used to be good at googling information I needed. Then Google changed what googling does.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 1 day ago
Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
Don’t use Google. DDG works with keyword searches and you get exactly what you expect.
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
For horribly inaccurate results that sound like they were written by a $5 SEO article writer.
Ill stick with key word search and skipping over all the SEO crap for.real results.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
With the amount of AI generated slop everywhere, I’m afraid that’s becoming less and less effective. For what it’s worth, LLMs work fairly well in filtering it out in a first pass. I don’t take what it spits out directly but uses the links it cites as sources and find my answers there.
addie@feddit.uk 2 days ago
There’s times when I want to find “exact matches and nothing but” - searching for error messages, for instance - and that’s made much harder than it should be by AI bullshit search engines that don’t want you to switch off their “helpful” features. Considering moving to Kagi instead.
illi@piefed.social 1 day ago
Definitely, there is using AI when you want and then there is having AI forced down your throat