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[–] Azal@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago

I have found a couple times an LLM being good for searches. My example is scooters in the US, because of commute I'd like to find an electric scooter, the kind like a Vespa. But you do a search, you find all sorts about the standing scooters, look for electric motorcycles and they start getting to car level prices or aren't street legal, it gets to be a mess. Chat GPT turned that search into a relatively quick one that I could find a local place that I'm going to check out when there's not ice on the ground. But the important part was making it require links. As a tool, it can have its uses.

So all of that said... Google and other searches doing AI did fuck all and nothing to help on this, and I agree 100% I do not want AI on the search for DDG

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Every poll is instantly skewed with the user base. I think Ai is amazing, but it's not worth the hype. Im cautious about its actual uses and its spectacular failures. Im not a Fuck AI person. But im also not an Ai is going to be our God in 2 years person. And I feel like im more the average.

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Blatantly misleading title. Makes it sounds like it encompassed more than just search engines.

[–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I like the ai assistant answers, seems to not include much SEO bs. Ddg, bing, google, startpage, whatever... All shit SEO results imho

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[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net -1 points 8 months ago

Most people wanting AI probably don’t use DDG though. Else they would use Brave Search I guess

I haven’t seen the poll though

[–] Thor_Whale@lemmus.org -2 points 8 months ago

I find Google Gemini to be useless and annoying. I do enjoy grok but I don't think life would end if we walked away from Ai tomorrow.

[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip -2 points 8 months ago

Most people against Ai probably have their nose in SearXNG and 4get.

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

Now can we have a poll from Dr. Thunder about what we went our Cola to taste like?

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