I was trying to debug a programming issue yesterday and resorted to Google since I couldn’t find a solution on DDG. The AI summary garbage literally just made up a bunch of details about the software I was working with that had no bearing on reality whatsoever.
DDG uses bing. Or did. So that explains why it’s gone to shit. Most of my web searches start at ddg. And then almost instantly followed by google cause of the shit results.
What I love is when the AI just literally says the same shit as the top returned result. Wow! Free plagiarism! Just what I need clogging up my search results!
I was trying to debug a programming issue yesterday and resorted to Google since I couldn’t find a solution on DDG. The AI summary garbage literally just made up a bunch of details about the software I was working with that had no bearing on reality whatsoever.
DDG uses bing. Or did. So that explains why it’s gone to shit. Most of my web searches start at ddg. And then almost instantly followed by google cause of the shit results.
But I found nothing on Google either, except hallucinated bullshit that wasted my time
I believe it. They are both terrible now. I find myself hitting pages 5 - 10 on Google way more than I ever have.
What I love is when the AI just literally says the same shit as the top returned result. Wow! Free plagiarism! Just what I need clogging up my search results!
The AI summarizes the AI blog posts from the result and everything just turns in to total unusable slop in the end
I only read official documentation and man pages these days
Man pages? Or did you mean main pages? Pretty applicable misspelling honestly haha
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page
The top result is probably plagiarism because good writers don’t have time for SEO. So you got plagiarism with one less click. Progress.
Yep, had the same experience trying to troubleshoot something in AutoCAD, complete with hallucinated source links that 404 on the autodesk site.