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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That ChatGPT can be more useful than a web search is really more indicative of how bad the web has got, and can only get worse as fake text invades it. It's not actually better than a functional search engine and a functional web, but the companies making these things have no interest in the web being usable. Pretty depressing.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

Remember when you could read through all the search results on Google rather than being limited to the first hundred or so results like today? And boolean search operators actually worked and weren't hidden away behind a "beware of leopard" sign? Pepperidge Farm remembers.