at least the indieweb has humans in it

Liked https://werd.io/2023/as-social-networks-begin-to-fill-with by

As social networks begin to fill with AI-generated crap, it occurs to me that the small, independent web will be the last place where you know you’ll find content and conversations from real people.

Liked Google’s chatbot panic by

Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

The really remarkable thing isn’t just that Microsoft has decided that the future of search isn’t links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar – even more remarkable is that Google agrees.

I don’t use generalist search engines anymore

Replied to The Tragedy of AI and Google Bard (curtismchale.ca)

After reading Casey Newton’s post on Google playing catch up with AI via Bard I’ve been prompted to complete some thoughts I’ve had brewing about search. When I want to research a new product I no longer go to Google. The clickbait and ill-informed reviews of products are a waste of my time. They reveal […]

Search engines have been my bane recently, especially for product reviews. Actually, I’m afraid that the internet has become an issue of itself these past days. Books are written by AI. Looking for a tutorial on Google will give you badly translated pages that spend 90% of the page on boilerplate information about the product…