It sounds like we’ve had very different experiences with both research and stairs.
I meant vs a normal search engine tho (which is also a viable place to find something you dont know the word for).
In your example tho, id probably just post a picture on a forum with text like “what is this piece?” Switch projects for 30 minutes, and then go back to my post to get opinions from humans.
I don’t know if it’s a conspiracy theory or real, but I have a feeling that search engines’ search quality has been deteriorating in the last decade, and it really sped up when LLMs shown up
Thats not a conspiracy theory, that is 100% whats going on, and there is documentation to prove it.
“Deteriorating” is the wrong word tho, that implies passivity, but their degradation was very much active and intentional.
If you’re curious as to why this would happen, I recommend reading the book “enshitification” by Cory Doctorow, it contains a much more nuanced and detailed explanation of what’s happened to search engines (and our whole society really).
The other reason that that book does not cover, is that the people who own these tech companies are fascists who want to control information/“truth”. So they made the best method of finding unbiased information more difficult, and simultaneously attempted to replace it with a chatbot that tells you whatever they programmed it to say “the truth” is.
It sounds like we’ve had very different experiences with both research and stairs.
I meant vs a normal search engine tho (which is also a viable place to find something you dont know the word for).
In your example tho, id probably just post a picture on a forum with text like “what is this piece?” Switch projects for 30 minutes, and then go back to my post to get opinions from humans.
I don’t know if it’s a conspiracy theory or real, but I have a feeling that search engines’ search quality has been deteriorating in the last decade, and it really sped up when LLMs shown up
Thats not a conspiracy theory, that is 100% whats going on, and there is documentation to prove it.
“Deteriorating” is the wrong word tho, that implies passivity, but their degradation was very much active and intentional.
If you’re curious as to why this would happen, I recommend reading the book “enshitification” by Cory Doctorow, it contains a much more nuanced and detailed explanation of what’s happened to search engines (and our whole society really).
The other reason that that book does not cover, is that the people who own these tech companies are fascists who want to control information/“truth”. So they made the best method of finding unbiased information more difficult, and simultaneously attempted to replace it with a chatbot that tells you whatever they programmed it to say “the truth” is.