I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
  • bluelander@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    13 hours ago

    I found a Pi Hole blocklist that filters out known ai slop websites but even then they’re still clogging up my DDG result. Such a pain.

    Also: Phantasy Star is great! Have you played the Sega Ages release? It adds some really cool stuff to make it more playable.

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Could you please share that blocklist? Anything that can slow down Ai slop is a win in my opinion.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      but even then they’re still clogging up my DDG result. Such a pain.

      From me, further down:

      And also the Google Hit Hider by Domain userscript, which, despite the name, works on a bunch of search engines.

      Copy your pihole list, edit the 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 out and import it there, done.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      Hell yeah the Sega Ages version is the definitive way to play. The built in dungeon map is a must if you don’t want to lose your mind having to manually map it out yourself. I never knew the FM chip had such a drastic improvement to the soundtrack before this version came out. Add on the scan line filter and it’s retro gaming bliss.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?

    Also, sites that are ‘strange and a bit obscure’ are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They’re likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.

    • asbestos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      21 hours ago

      Insert last part of the page:

      And if your answer is to just say “Um, Nicole, you could never trust the internet, people could tell lies or even just honest mistakes about topics, you do it all the time”, please try to understand the point I’m trying to make beyond just a reading of the headline.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        19 hours ago

        I read the whole thing and I wasn’t 100% what the point was beyond the title. I still feel like responding with “it always has been.”

        I guess it’s that they like to give new websites she finds the benefit of the doubt for the off chance that she might gain new knowledge about a subject, but:

        • people perpetuate misinformation to make a quick buck off as revenue

        • LLMs make the problem even worse

        • they feel powerless to do anything about it

        None of which is an excitingly new revelation if you have been paying attention for the last decade or so.

        But as someone looking for a copy of Phantasy Star, I found out there’s a reprint of it on Genesis thanks to this blog, so that’s good! Now to see if they’re telling the truth…

        • cheesorist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          9 hours ago

          LLMs make the problem even worse

          its way worse, a couple of years ago id look something up (had to be somewhat popular) and find a few clearly bullshit articles because they follow similar scripts, and rarely make new ones.

          nowadays every time I look something up there’s a new ai article site that talks about this very niche thing im looking for, and skimming through it looks somewhat convincing

  • Spesknight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    13 hours ago

    If someone says AI is reliable ask them to ask AI who they are, like we used to Google ourselves. It will spit out some bullshit for sure (except if your friend is famous, but maybe even in that case).

  • undrwater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    22 hours ago

    Wow. I got a few links deep.

    I’ve just recently told my family that modern tech is pushing me to become a Luddite.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    22 hours ago

    And here’s a thing about me. I want to trust new websites. I have a bias towards clicking on articles from sites I don’t know, because to be quite honest, I’ve read the TCRF page on Phantasy Star a thousand times. How else do you learn something new?

    To some extent, I think that this is a solveable problem in terms of just weighting domain age and reputation more highly in search engines (and maybe in LLM training stuff).

    The problem is that then you wind up with a situation where it’s hard for new media sources to compete with established incumbents, because the incumbents have all that reputation and new entrants have to build theirs, and new entrants get deprioritized by search engines.

    I think that maybe there’s an argument that you could also provide a couple of user-configurable parameters on search engines to permit not deprioritizing newer sites and the like.

    Another issue is that reputation can be bought and sold. This is not new. For example, you can buy a reputatable, established news source and then change its content to be less reputable but promote a message that you want. That will, over time, burn its credibility, but as long as the return you get is worth what you’ve spent…shrugs