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• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not on tiktok, but I’ll admit to using YouTube as a search engine a lot. Also googling something and immediately hitting the video tab before reading any of the results.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You video guys work different.

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    • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I must be a dinosaur because for most things I am looking up I want concise textual information. I’ll look for videos to explain larger complicated concepts

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      • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If it’s something like taking apart hardware, videos are great because there are a lot of little details that it’s hard to capture in even a picture.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sure, video has it’s place. I was just wondering that some people get their info primarily from video. Guess it’s something with abstraction vs. imagination.

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I only find videos useful if I’m trying to figure out something that’s procedural. Seeing the procedures and steps done in front of me helps me grasp the concept much faster than text.

      For just information though, text is golden and video is a waste of time.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i hate it, but i just cant find decent written resulta anymore outside of reddit and such

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Depends on field. Some meth math and programming stuff exists only in PDF. Try find videos on Bounding Interval Hierarchy.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s how I use Bing. 😻

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  • stellargmite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I liken using groogle for finding factual information to using the yellowpages for doing the same. YT isn’t much better but it suffers many of the conflicts of interest traditional media outlets also had, depending on the corporation. In this case the almighty algorithm is the conflict of interest, though there are clever content creators out there making some good stuff, they’ll always be beholden to the owners of the platform and the true customers - the advertisers. As an advertising platform which can direct punters to actual long form content directly supported by watchers via patreon or similar, I understand why it is used : the sheer numbers using it.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just ask chatGPT…

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    • lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why? All it’s going to do is output some words that have a statistical correlation to your input words

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well, that is mostly what I need and it summarises the search results as well.

        Of course, you have to apply your critical thinking skills, but you gotta do that always everywhere. Normal humans talk as much trash as LLMs do, in my experience.

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