It’s getting a bit ridiculous out here. I’m using DuckDuckGo but since it aggregates its search from other sources, it’s also gotten bad recently. Is there a search out there that blocks domains that spam AI? Extra points if there’s something like Ublock Origin that filters things based on a community-made list.

Edit: I’m aware of Kagi but it’s pretty expensive and I’m not a fan that they, too, host their own AI tools.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Search is eventually going to be so enshitified that the way to actually find out things is going to fall back on “ask someone you trust who knows things you don’t”. At least by that point those trustworthy people should be better informed than in the past…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It’s ultimately self-defeating as well because any future AI is going to be polluted by past AI’s garbage content. Making it even harder to develop intelligent AI systems.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I tried doing some of this. I trained on a corpus of data I wanted it to read, with such a small amount of training data, I found it was overall too lossy. If I asked it a question about something that was in there and it responded there was a really good chance that it was in there. But there was a lot of not knowing something that was definitely in there. It wasn’t completely useless but I wouldn’t say that it was at the level of being truly helpful.

          I worry that there’s not enough verified data out there to set up for proper training.

          • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            I suspect such a model would have to be far more attuned to its data being smaller but trustworthy. Something like chatGPT for example requires a huge volume because it’s weakly affected by any particular datum going in. It’s designed to adapt to general conversation norms, rather than specific facts. If you could take a generalist like chatGPT and combine it with an expert model that’s been told everything it’s told has a huge weighting then that would probably be a big step forward.