Anyone else experience this?

You run into a niche or weird issue. So you google “how to x”, “y not working on z” or “Error code: 123”; The 1st, 2nd, 3rd page are infected, probably 90% AI slop. Don’t have any luck even with the one blog post that was probably written by a human.

Now I have to go to YouTube. Look for a tutorial, 1st, 2nd, 3rd video all AI. AI voice, AI avatar, bot comments like “😍😍😍”.

Finally I reach a real video from a year or two ago that actually solved my issue. Took 4 hours when normally I could find it in 1 hour tops.

  • toddestan@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Sadly one of the solutions to this is to ask an AI. It’s a bit of a crapshoot - often it’ll just give back a bunch of slop or hallucinate an answer, but other times it’s able to cut through the crap a lot faster than I would ever be able to and give me the exact information I’m looking for. Even better if you can get it to link to its sources so you can check its work.