Plugging into chatgpt how to play a certain game for example spits out clear and concise information I’d spend the better part of half an hour scraping reddit for and subjecting myself to psychic damage. And it makes me feel bad in turn that I’m part of the problem polluting the earth with this crap. Honestly feels like the internet has been enshitified on purpose just to make people have to rely on ai to navigate it without throwing your hands up in frustration.

        • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          10 hours ago

          They already are. The links that appear as information references in Google’s ‘AI’ preview for example are already selected via weighted lists that benefit Google or their biggest advertisers. So not only are they basically rendering SEO rankings irrelevant by producing info / answers with no click through at all, but they’re prioritising their own interests in that too. People in digital marketing are shitting a brick about it at the moment.

          Ironically, it is the more annoying one to work into a searx instance once you set one up.