The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:
Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.
Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'.
The problem is AI slop; there are thousands of websites (even some old venerable sites that were sold off) that just have "that exact query as a web page", but the results are AI generated, and have no helpful information inside.
Jeff Geerling
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2025-05-20 16:35:21 UTC
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