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    622 hours ago

    Remember when normies couldn’t even find what they wanted via normal web searches?

    This seems like that.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 hours ago

      maybe it was a mistake to lionize a corporate monopolist to the level where we ostracized people for not being “good” at using their trap of a product

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        People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification.

        Generally, people who don’t know how to work with the systems. As it relates to newer LLM search tools, not knowing how to prompt it correctly to get the desired output, knowing the limitations of LLMs to prevent you from doing something stupid, and knowing to check the sources that most of these LLMs provide before fully trusting the info it provides.

        Normies are the ones microwaving their phones after 4chan encouraged them to which happened way before LLMs were spitting out sometimes bad info. Those are the same people who are going to eat glue or whatever the LLM says because it read too much Reddit.

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          54 hours ago

          People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification

          This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart

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            -1014 hours ago

            I’ve got nothing against people not using LLM search if they don’t find value in it.

            That just doesn’t describe me or my experience with it.

            To be clear, the vast majority of my searches don’t involve LLM results at all. But I’m glad to have it on the edge cases where I find it useful.

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              23 hours ago

              But I’m glad to have it on the edge cases where I find it useful.

              Such as?

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      Yeah, now not even computer engineers can find anything via web search.

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        117 hours ago

        If they’re still using Google, that’s kind of on them.