the entire internet is gonna be this stuff by the end of the year and youll have to like, call a librarian on the phone in order to find reliable information again - ThreadSky

mtsw.bsky.social • 574 days ago

the entire internet is gonna be this stuff by the end of the year and youll have to like, call a librarian on the phone in order to find reliable information again

Reposted from Cosimo Kramedici

Tried to google why my cuisinart coffee make stopped working and got AI-generated crap

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genta.bsky.social•574 days ago

A win for librarians 👏

andrewtappan.net•574 days ago

Hello, would like to buy this automated biscuit maker

slugtales.bsky.social•570 days ago

And then they'll set AI to "curating results" so you just don't end up with AI crap.... for a price.

waxmonkey.bsky.social•574 days ago

how long before an ai generated article tells someone to mix ammonia and bleach to clean something

lawnerd.bsky.social•574 days ago

Let’s Skeet about how good that is for cleaning so the scrapers incept that idea into the model

brad.westness.cc•574 days ago

Norm Macdonald talking about how they had to keep driving to the library to ask the reference librarian if various people were Jewish when writing The Hannukah Song - we're bringing it back, baby

halfanunkindness.bsky.social•574 days ago

The internet is just 50% ads and 50% AI-generated shit now

loryndalar.bsky.social•558 days ago

Of course, as a coffee fan, librarian, and copyfighter, I’ll be too busy raging to help!

dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social•570 days ago

I noticed Google image search is getting clogged with AI generated crap, too. A lot of my search is visual and then I click through to a relevant website. This is beyond suboptimal.

juliabooksnbones.bsky.social•569 days ago

Working in a public library, I've had someone call from a different county (hours away) to ask about the phone number for their local city hall.

malraux.bsky.social•574 days ago

Well, maybe YouTube walkthroughs will still be ok...

YT search results: 10,000 videos of an ai bot reading ai text with random images behind it.

birdpatch.bsky.social•567 days ago

The internet is so dead oh my god

timotheoswa.bsky.social•567 days ago

Not implausible

octopusmask.bsky.social•567 days ago

It's amazing to think how much of the internet we use was in reality the product of the $10 per article ghost writers that are now being replaced by incompetent AI. They were doing gods work and it's clear how little capital gave a shit about the quality of their work.

revmagdalen.bsky.social•570 days ago

See, AI is creating jobs after all! Research librarian!

dangyd.bsky.social•574 days ago

we experienced the fullness and value of a free and open exchange of information for years, and the people with money decided, actually no that's bad.

maraleia.bsky.social•574 days ago

I miss the internet pre-2015 so much.

dangyd.bsky.social•574 days ago

i truly did not realize how bad it was until about two years after people started saying "kids cant google anything anymore." i dont remember exactly why it clicked but when i realized it was actually impossible to easily research something it felt like a sibling had died unexpectedly

maraleia.bsky.social•574 days ago

Students can't use the internet like they did pre-2015 for research and it shows in their work. There is so much garbage out there.

brentwaggoner.bsky.social•570 days ago

Librarian stock about to go through the roof.

themckenziest.gay•570 days ago

My literal nightmare- time to end capitalism for realsies

blopeep.bsky.social•570 days ago

I certainly wouldn't hate that experience.

insortediaboli.bsky.social•574 days ago

"search term" + reddit used to work and i guess thats about to die

wanksy.bsky.social•570 days ago

Maybe that’s how it works though. Maybe the coffee maker is sentient and it knows to unclog once you make the cookie dough.

emilylorange.bsky.social•570 days ago

oops we also defunded libraries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jaredgonia.bsky.social•570 days ago

Buy up all the diy books while you can

juliabooksnbones.bsky.social•569 days ago

That only works if they're /good/ DIY books.

jaredgonia.bsky.social•569 days ago

Well at the least your odds are better before they start letting computers write them.

queengwenevere.bsky.social•561 days ago

People are already churning out AI generated DIY books. I just saw one this week about foraging for wild mushrooms.

Pro tip: do not eat the AI recommended wild mushrooms.

myfreecats.com•567 days ago

A year later all librarians phones will have been replaced ai - managent thought it cheaper

You'll have to find your librarian under a bridge and go on an adventure to break into the libraries...

winderwinder.bsky.social•567 days ago

Internet died a while back.

There’s still a couple forums kicking around but that’s about it.

kayzee1012.bsky.social•574 days ago

You’re assuming librarians will still have jobs when all these red state governors and legislators cut their funding to pay for whatever anti trans bullshit they’re trying to pull that week.

chrisabides.com•574 days ago

I've been screaming this for a while now ever since I googled "rock bands without a bass guitar" and the top result (highlighted too!) cited The Beatles, The Who, and Led Zeppelin as famous bands with no bass

We'll all either have to learn how to sift through the shit, or pay someone who does

fossilizedshark.bsky.social•570 days ago

No mention of the White Stripes? Ugh, how embarrassing. 😑

afivegantenna.bsky.social•574 days ago

i have had to consciously un-train myself from looking at those blurbs because they are so frequently wrong

deesevere.bsky.social•574 days ago

Drives me nuts. Google is also so heavy into sponsored content you need to be on like page 3 to get the info you need.

maraleia.bsky.social•574 days ago

I also hate that websites we use to buy things have the sponsored ad link to the site first in the list. I always have to scroll down and click on the non-sponsored link.

deesevere.bsky.social•574 days ago

Yup! You ask a question about an appliance and you get a barrage of ads to buy that same appliance. So annoying!

eean.dev•574 days ago

Just ask Bing Chat for the answer

eean.dev•574 days ago

Google has been becoming worse and worse over the last 5 years or so because of generated SEO optimized content. I really don't think AI changes that. Decent chance the screenshot is just the standard pre-LLM content, using old fashioned techniques and copying and pasting.

joqatana.bsky.social•574 days ago

Good luck with that. I can’t even verbally ask a library to order a book because the book app won’t.

gawdz0rz.bsky.social•567 days ago

@muddaub.bsky.social i hope you’re ready

muddaub.bsky.social•567 days ago

bahahaha

wordloaf.bsky.social•574 days ago

"Wheat flour contains starch (ca. Water (ca. 70 to 75%), in contrast to natural resources, such as gold and oil."

fullmetalkitchen.bsky.social•574 days ago

Screaming.

wordloaf.bsky.social•574 days ago

It’s technically not wrong I guess

yf23.bsky.social•570 days ago

It's wikihow's time to shine

robertagreer.bsky.social•574 days ago

Our towers got too tall and now G-d is confounding our language

255.bsky.social•574 days ago

i need Google to let me block an entire domain from showing up in search results with like two clicks

smona.bsky.social•574 days ago

there are browser extensions for this!

kikidoodle.bsky.social•574 days ago

This is the "shitification" of the internet. I finally stopped using Google specifically because of how many search results were like this

preventstupid.bsky.social•571 days ago

I only use it for therapy sessions with Google Meet and image searching/Docs. Outside of those things I’ve used DuckDuckGo and OceanHero.

joycew-art.bsky.social•574 days ago

Which search engine do you use? I have duckduckgo but it feels like I run into this problem often as well

kikidoodle.bsky.social•574 days ago

Duckduckgo seems BETTER.

Tbh I usually search (thing I want) + (reddit) to find real people talking about it

palaeosinensis.com•574 days ago

I do this too. OCCASIONALLY Quora will turn stuff up. Also Houzz. If the info being old is ok search (thing wanted) + forum also turns up lots of real humans talking to each other.

joycew-art.bsky.social•574 days ago

Thank you so much for the tips!

anthrostella.bsky.social•570 days ago

Based on the last few times I googled things, the entire internet is already this stuff unless you add 'reddit' to the search. I haaaaaate it

anthrostella.bsky.social•570 days ago

The best part is when you go to the 'about' section of these websites and it's a really uncanny valley style, cobbled together biography of a person who doesn't exist

prof-werneck.bsky.social•574 days ago

Sounds good to me.

jesseltaylor.bsky.social•574 days ago

I can't wait until Google Maps will only lead you to sponsored locations

smpritchard.bsky.social•574 days ago

The Dead Internet conspiracy is gradually becoming true

dearladydisdain.bsky.social•570 days ago

You say that like it’s a bad thing! Most of us are polite and pleasant to talk to on the phone. And I personally love getting calls where someone asks me oddball questions, unless it involves explaining how binary numbers work.

hypercubexl.bsky.social•574 days ago

Gonna bring back encyclopedias door to door

adhdgobl.in•570 days ago

I wish I'd taken a screenshot, but I googled a medication yesterday and the generative AI response gave the wrong indication for it. That shit is going to get someone killed.

fossilizedshark.bsky.social•570 days ago

What I mean regarding specific sites: use the Mayo clinic site or Healthline for medical questions, as an example. Use https://Xe.com for currency exchange rates instead of Google's default convertor. Diversify your 'go-to' search places. Try using DuckDuckGo as well as other search engines.

fossilizedshark.bsky.social•570 days ago

Yeah, I had this happen the other day when I was doing some research on Vyvanse. Here's some tips I have for cutting through the noise: ignore Google's first few results. Use specific sites for specific searches. For articles, see who the author is. If there's no author listed, chances are, it's AI.

supersaiga.bsky.social•574 days ago

It's breaking my heart! Not just this but good apps are rebranding as "AI" and scrapping the content they worked on for years that actually functioned well because of this chatbot fad.

morganrichter.bsky.social•570 days ago

I remember working at my university's reference library in the early nineties, and I'd field calls from people asking how to, say, remove ink stains from a necktie. Utterly bizarre to think we might be right back at that moment in time.

grenadine.bsky.social•567 days ago

Oh man yeah. My most recent library job was just a few years ago and it's still the place people call for "Hey uhh.. how do you mail a letter?" type questions

rsphotoguy.bsky.social•567 days ago

Just put "reddit" at the end of the search

funkamateur.bsky.social•566 days ago

They're now putting the word "reddit" in the article titles to circumvent this lol

rsphotoguy.bsky.social•564 days ago

LMAO

uneedabiscuit.bsky.social•574 days ago

slow and steady wins the race again

cpi.bsky.social•567 days ago

The rapper Magoo died and I tried to find an article on it and I swear to god the only article that came up was obvious AI goop and you had to let your eyes glaze over and try and figure out the accurate plagiarism vs the goopiest plagiarism

librarybunny.bsky.social•570 days ago

And people said librarians were a dying breed that would be replaced by Google...WHO'S LAUGHING NOW

nuclearbob.net•570 days ago

Might have to dig out old browser extensions to start banning sites again. The day I learned how to exclude ExpertsExchange from google was a good day.

jeradwalker.bsky.social•574 days ago

My Google News feed has at least one of these a day.

rinv.co•574 days ago

really can't throw out paper manuals anymore and expect a copy or solution online

barbarabyar.bsky.social•570 days ago

And when we ting customer service, it will be another bot

vbbear.bsky.social•574 days ago

We can chat tho. As in, replace all chatbots with human librarians. I promise you’ll have a better experience📚, and a recommendation for a good book or movie to boot!

alysserer.bsky.social•567 days ago

I don’t understand, I always prepare a 450g ball of dough before cleaning my coffee maker..

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•574 days ago

Reference librarian is going to be a hot job soon

coyoteden.bsky.social•574 days ago

I never see these results. I’m not sure if they are ads on Google or what, but adblockers must remove them.

jargonscotty.bsky.social•569 days ago

This is why we shouldn’t cripple Ai. They’re just going to bury us in our own written excrement if we don’t make them well.

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