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#searchengine

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Ramin Honary
AI is an Orwellian nightmare

I used to be able to search for things using a search engine. It would point me to a source of information, I could decide for myself if the source was good or not. But not anymore. Recently I just wasted a lot of time trying to find something using a search engine only to get lost in an ocean of AI slop.

I finally gave in and asked my question to ChatGPT and it answered my question perfectly, it even showed me where it got it’s sources of information. The places it linked me to were either no longer existent (if ever) or only vaguely related. But it at least created the appearance of citing factual sources of information, in whatever way the statistical models have been trained to give that impression to the humans who use it.

In Orwell’s novel “1984,” we saw how a single government agency took all control over information, how the staff would keep a database of facts but constantly alter these facts to fit the view of reality that their despot “Big Brother” wanted the citizens to believe. The same thing happens now with LLMs presenting a very carefully tuned image of the facts in the database.

AI chat bots are an innovative new method of brainwashing, one which nobody could have ever imagined possible even a few years ago: get everyone to trust a mechanical Big Brother because it chats with you like a friendly fellow human would.

(Full article here.)

tilde.townRamin Honary: AI is an Orwellian nightmare
#AI#tech#internet
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Monsieur Delafin

Thinking of changing #SearchEngine yet again. Which one would be most interesting, also towards the long run?
Kagi: payed for, but US based and not anti AI as far as I know. Do they have their own inex?
Qwant: EU based, free, I think they're working with Ecosia on a partial own inex?
Mojeek: really seperate index.

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i686-powered lia

It's crazy that in the context of my #web experience, @marginalia went from a fun but ultimately impractical diversion to literally the only way the #internet is browsable for me now.

Try using any #searchEngine to look up any broad question that's #tech, #household or #life related. Almost all results will be extremely verbose, LLM generated, pointless (and/or product ads).

On #Marginalia, I found real, human-written and most importantly, *useful* information immediately.

#MarginaliaSearch
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Jeremie

🧵 And now, the part 4 or my series of articles on how to build a #crossplatform #searchengine, in #rustlang.

📰 This article is about how we query the indexes, aggregate the results and generate some scores.

💬 Enjoy reading it, feel free to provide me some feedback, here or directly on GitHub 😃

:fediverse: If you enjoy it, feel free to share it on other platforms!

🔗 Here is the link: jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503

jdrouet · Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 4Or how we'll find something in all this.
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Ramin Honary
Can’t escape the slop

I disabled #AI assist on #DuckDuckGo, but even when I do, I still get a bunch of search results that point me to 100% AI-generated web pages. Nowadays anyone can just fuzz search engines like #Google for lists of commonly searched queries, then generate slop responses to these queries, then cache the slop, and then use shady SEO techniques to get these slop pages to show up at the top of search results. And this is what I have been getting from a lot of my web searches lately, content from slop shops.

A part of me thinks companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon may themselves be investing in these shady slop shops to deliberately make traditional search engines useless, which would “incentivize” people to use #LLM -based AI like Gemini or #ChatGPT more often, though that is purely speculation on my part.

If you had asked my 20 years ago that the #Internet of the future would rapidly devolve and become increasingly useless as time went on, I would have dismissed you as a paranoid crackpot. Here we are in the future and I still can hardly believe how shitty technology is becoming.

#tech#rant#enshittification
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Jeremie

🧵 And now, the part 3 or my series of articles on how to build a #crossplatform #searchengine, in #rustlang.

📰 This article is about how the sharding mechanism works.

💬 Enjoy reading it, feel free to provide me some feedback, here or directly on GitHub 😃

:fediverse: If you enjoy it, feel free to share it on other platforms!

🔗 Here is the link: jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503

jdrouet · Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 3Or how we'll implement sharding and transactions for our search engine.
#encryption#opensource#wasm
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