I need to step away from my PC – for a moment – because, although I have so much to write, the statements made in this video touch me too deeply and are too closely aligned to my own views and too close to the fundamental reasons underlying my own depression and disillusionment and burn-out.
Watch it.
Seriously. Watch it. If you are well briefed on the A.I. bubble and A.I. Hell, just skip to:
- ~ 34 minutes to miss the demonstration of the tedious issue.[1]
- ~ 38 minutes to reach the philosophical statements
- ~ 39 minutes to hear about deception – the universal “tell” of A.I. scammers
- ~ 41 minutes if you’re prepared for tears: to lament what we’ve lost, what we so nearly had, what humanity is losing, what is being stolen from artists ¬
(I need some space.)
I assure you this video is not about content farms, SEO or the death of search but one might be mistaken for thinking that, in the first half. Don’t. It is worth your patience. ↩︎
Coffee and cola are both pretty good. Are you reflexively coming to the defense of generative AI on general principle or did you actually look at those sites, the horribleness of which is exhaustively detailed in the video, and decide that they look as if they could be useful to anyone?
I looked at the sites. Did you? The thing that OP was looking for that they claimed had been made unfindable or “polluted” were perfectly accessible and fine.
“google-fu” is a skill. it’s not reasonable to expect everyone to be perfectly proficient. and it seems like you are saying “just perfectly define your search query to match the exact result you need every time” which, i think most would agree is often very difficult even if your fu is quite good. I think this might actually be an np problem. I used to have good fu, these days I find that google sometimes breaks or ignores my quotes, changes exact wordings to thesaurus matches, shit like that. also, there are filter bubbles.
now we’re adding to all of those already known uncontroversial challenges to googling the information “pollution” of low-quality unsupervised chatbot hallucinations where genuine good search results might otherwise go. it’s not that it’s unfindable- that’s not what the op video claims. it’s that the signal-to-noise ratio is intolerably low, and that basically by design.
and yes, it seems there is still room for human-creative solutions to these search problems, like the one you suggest which basically rearranges words and exchanges some thesaurus hits. sort of like how you can sometimes “jailbreak” llms by TaLkInG tO tHeM lIkE ThIs. for now. actually, they probably already patched that.
The “google-fu” in this case was to search for “.glb format specification” when seeking the .glb format specification.
This really doesn’t seem like a huge challenge requiring sophisticated skills.
