@david_chisnall I guess you, too, harbour mistrust toward promoters of large language models.

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Alcohol free port is a contradiction in terms. Can't make port without adding spirits to it.

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The entire first page of search results has become AI slop now. For any subject.

Reddit is about the only thing I trust these days because I know it's actual humans.

@david_chisnall Once did a search for local pubs that served Gluten free beer. It sent me to a slop page (now gone) that had instructions on how to make beer from a pub tap GF. It involved weird stuff, such as holding a cigarette lighter under the glass until the beer started bubbling.

@david_chisnall More information does not necessarily mean a narrower view. The real issue is not to let AI make decisions in place of our own judgment. The value of AI lies not in thinking for us, but in giving us access to more information so that we can examine, compare, and judge it for ourselves. Perhaps the challenge of the future will not be a lack of information, but our ability to distinguish truth from information that is merely convincing.

@david_chisnall I have to search for names a lot at work to make sure the spellings are correct, and it's forever telling me I've misspelled something and was actually looking for Jeff Goldblum or something equally nonsensical. Last one was checking a racing driver called Jensen Mason, it told me in a very patronising way that actually his name was Jenson Button.

@david_chisnall Enshittification of an entire generation: Make everything slop, hide from the them all evidence that anything was ever better, dumb them down AF, claim AGI, ride in on a white horse.

@david_chisnall thanks to this being mastodon my reading started with the question: an alcohol free port of what?? until I realized

@david_chisnall I agree with everything you've written here. As a sidenote, some years ago we also once tried to get hold of some alcohol-free port for a Christmas guest to have with a cheese board, and we couldn't find any anywhere.

I guess you just can't dealcoholise port without destroying whatever gives it its distinct flavour. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@david_chisnall Just think, newer generations of chatbot are right now, ingesting the excreta of their predecessors, along with everything else. #Degenerative

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AI circular finance fraud & fossil fuel funded fascism would drive anyone to drink.

@david_chisnall it’s gotten bad enough I am going out of my way to search for texts from pre-2023 as the web since has been polluted with LLM slop.

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Is there any search engine left that lists genuine web pages?

I’ve resorted to searching Wikipedia directly lately, a lot, since it’s human-curated.

@david_chisnall I had the same thing with bonsai avocados - a stone I threw out sprouted so I was going to give it a go. All the pages on search were useless slop telling me 1) how to bonsai a tree and 2) avocados are a type of tree with some unsettling fake images (apparently you can get bonsai avocado fruit?!?). I still have no idea but am giving it a go.