[jrmg]

It wasn't written to answer someone's question or satisfy their search intent. It was just written to rank.

Anyone who’s searched for reviews or tech questions recently has experienced this. And it’s slowly eating everything.

The web is turning into nothing but potemkin content.

[dizhn]

Totally. The internet is full of blog sites explaining how to do things that are impossible. Like how to cast from vlc to dlna on Android. They'll have a whole page with bullet points and everything that ultimately involves using a Chromecast. I once ended up at a page about an emulator that was hallucinating in GPT3 levels. Something like playing Gran Turismo on an xbox emulator or something. They have no shame.

[the_snooze]

It's all parasitic bots on the surface stealing content and generating sludge. Humans find shelter underground in un-indexable private chats.

[PheonixPharts]

This is strangely where I've found the most personal benefit of LLMs. As long as it's not too current or depend on recent information (like the weather), searching for information in LLMs reminds me a lot of Google 10 years ago.

Yea sometimes LLMs hallucinate, but sometimes websites are just wrong. For a variety of topics LLMs are just a better form of search.

[flir]

I just typed this into ChatGPT (so not even a question): "tar -x??? filename.tar.gz"

It gave me back "tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz" with a breakdown of what each switch does. I don't think Google's ever been able to intuit what I'm asking for like that.

[yonatan8070]

I've seen this being very prevelant in technical support, searching for an answer about "Windows blue screen error code 0xwhatever" will yield an infinite list of results telling you to reboot, run sfc /scannow, and reinstall Windows