[mintaka5]

nope sorry. most sites are indexed based on crap algos. we are at the mercy of content providers who are not responsible with producing well managed and authoritative information. search engines are like reference librarians that have no idea how their libraries are organized.

[kjs3]

I have a number of librarian acquaintances who seem to cope with the gradual disappearance/destruction of their careers by telling themselves "one day, they'll get sick of current state, and they'll be back". I hope it's true.

[mintaka5]

i hope so too, i have a $25k degree in MLIS that promised me a fruitful career. now i teach arts & crafts too Wall Street fuck kids.

all that aside, i taught myself to program, because i could read the writing on the wall in that career. that was a wash too. now i have to compete with AI?! one day? i'm done. i'd rather commit suicide than have to keep chasing a nowhere goal.

[zteppenwolf]

I don't know about that, but maybe they will try to create a new platform with their own expertise? There is clearly some public for that.

[kjs3]

I think implicit in the hope is that maybe not everything should be delt with via 'algorithm', and perhaps there's a place left in this brave new automated world for actual people helping people.

[mintaka5]

i have an idea for that, but i think things like GPT will thwart it. machine learning is great, but it's not connected to human understanding. that is what librarians did was take non-human information and bridge it with a shortcut to human understanding on a broad basis. software can manage the information really well, but no one has designed a thing that bridges genuine human "knowing" with machine "knowing".