I’ve used DuckduckGo for at least a decade. When they started embedding their little AI summary thing at the top of the chat I knew it was coming. But recently, it seems when I search anything I get tons of the same slop, SEO pumped, AI generated info pages. There was a time when I would at least stumble upon an old HTML article from a university or something. Everything sucks now. Do they even make encyclopedia books anymore?

    • DornerStan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Asking directly for knowledge from a tool that relies on statistical weights is a misuse of the tool, as I stated. That example was specifically to draw into question whether the commenter had actually investigated the things she was speaking on, because the arguments seemed severely outdated (in addition to being non sequitur).

      As I said in my comments, if I needed that kind of info I’d probably look to YouTube or forum posts. It’s entirely irrelevant to this conversation.