[pollomonteros]

When you are doing an assignment for school that could be answered in 10 words but the teacher has placed a 500 words lower limit for it

[andrei_says_]

This describes so much of the content on the web nowadays and it’s just exhausting.

I thought I was the weird one with my ultra-succinct communication but I now know the endless walls of text reflect the corrupting effect of needing to please search engines.

[lIIIllllIIII]

That explains a lot of the crap I see. Google something very specific like how to setup a testing library? You'll get an article from dev.to with a 3000 word wall of text containing not only a verbose description of what is unit testing and why you should unit test, but also the author's life story and maybe a recipe for mojitos

The actual content was a couple of shell commands and like 3 lines of JSON

[Apocryphon]

Worse still are those auto generated spam sites that have an FAQ index on the top of the page looking like a Wiki but are actually just empty content pulled in from multiple sources.

[acheron]

Man, where the hell did those come from? All of a sudden in the past few months they are all over my DDG search results.

[User23]

The sky is blue. Why is the sky blue? Philosophers have wondered for millennia about the hue of the firmament. Some say that…

[cellis]

Luckily we have GPT-3 now...

[jazzyjackson]

I would love to use GPT-3 in reverse, to convert search results into the 30 words that actually answer my query.