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When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn't take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there's full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it's just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I'm not sure how I didn't notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Not the same thing.

google allows for the possibility that the user was able to think critically about sources that a search returned

chapGPT is drunk uncle confidently stating a thing they heard third hand from Janet in accounting and then taking him at his word

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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John Smith wrote at 12:28 on Friday

Peertube is actually developed by a transphobic communist who turned my daughter gay. Boycott!!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At this point, ad blocker is pretty much mandatory for me, just like how antivirus software used to be a decade ago (probably more)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PLEASE DISABLE YOUR AD BLOCKER! We use the revenue from annoying you to feed our starving CEO!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Can't wait for them to be starved. Does installing two adblockers speed up the process?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

They are? This is why you use a pop up blocker…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I love that fair and balanced opinion. I hope he is running for an office I can vote for. /s

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

but at least your drunk uncle won't boil the oceans in the process too

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

How dare you, my drunk uncle is completely capable of boiling the oceans! He was even boasting about it at our last family dinner!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

noone boils the ocean with using chatgpt

one transatlantic flight produces the same amount of CO2 as 600000 ChatGPT requests; if you use Quen 2.5, you need to make nearly 2 mio. requests.

To set this in relation, transport only for Bezos wedding in Venice equals about 54000000 ChatGPT requests.

Using a LLM once in a while is negligible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People before ChatGPT thought critically of things on Google as much as they do ChatGPT today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

People before facebook thought critically of what they saw on the news as much as they do facebook today.

Sure, people didn't think about things too much at any point in time and sources aren't always perfectly reliable, but some sources are worse than others,

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You’re giving people using google too much credit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately now Google is ChatGPT. It provides its own shitty AI answers, and its search results have been corrupted by an ocean of slop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I assumed it was bwing used the current common usage for using a web search, like how kleenex is used for any facial tittle, not literally Google the search engine.

Speaking of literal, Google is putting Gemini results before search results, not using chatGPT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

chapGPT is drunk uncle confidently stating a thing they heard third hand from Janet in accounting and then taking him at his word

Also you: "why do people bother to mention when information comes from ChatGPT"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ai's provide you with links so you can use your critical thinking

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do you click on the links?

If they are links from the search, isn't that just the same thing as doing a regular search and verifying the results?

What does this extra layer add other than an unreliable middleman who is extremely inefficient?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But don't you see? It allows the corporations to insert their opinion into the answer and bias you before you click that link. That's better right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You are correct. AI can give an a completely different answer than its source and they can just blame it on AI. This is true but Google has sway the results given depending on the individual. Obama talks about this and how it contributes to the extreme divide of people of the US.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

It steals content from creators while being worse for the environment at the same time. Not the same thing, it is worse.

I worked in education in computer science and basic usage in nearly every age group. When you realize how bad people are at using search engines, you can see why people think they accomplished something using AI. It's like giving a child a calculator saying he can do math now.

Creating search prompts itself is a skill. You wouldn't think so until trying to teach some one logic through search prompts. It is hell, literally my hell. Some people just don't get it like 0 percent.

Differentiating what is a good source and what is a bad source is an even harder skill. People will believe what they want to believe. Google search adapts to the bias of individuals because it keeps people searching. This is why, even though it isn't perfect, engines like duckduckgo are important.