Look at this shit (first paragraph of body of article):
“Automatic watches are admired for their intricate mechanics and timeless appeal, but even the finest timepieces can sometimes run fast or slow. If you’ve noticed your automatic watch gaining or losing time, you’re not.”
First search result on DDG. Thank you, automatic watch expert and real person Hnin Oo Thazin. We may need a whole ass new internet.
https://mtscwatch.com/blog/why-your-automatic-watch-runs-fast-or-slow-and-how-to-fix-it
In the age of SEO and AI slop, may your niche hobby or interest never become trendy.
Unfortunately canning and recipes in general are now concerning and I have to worry about food safety so much more!
Who doesn’t love a bit of Botulism? Really helps with that post-holiday diet.
Can’t speak for canning, but for the recipes in particular, I was really shocked at the state of things the first time I looked at a recipe on an English website (not my first language).
I only look at recipes in my native language, partly because of the fact that this bullshit is not yet generalised and a fair few website have them still in a good format.
If that’s not the case for you, maybe translating a foreign recipe would help? Don’t know how long for though…
I’ve noticed the trend rising in Spanish language recipes. That used to be my trick.
Te acompaño en este momento de dolor.
Canning now boils down to for me, “only use the sites you know are safe” and it’s annoying.
Maybe it’s just back to physical cookbooks again!
I went back to my mum’s method of writing down the recipes I like in a dedicated notebook… Does not help with finding new things, but it does with having to skip slop in recipes I want to do again.
https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/canning_and_preserving-1887.pdf
Here, knock yourself out.
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The problem with old old recipes is they haven’t been tested probably uh, ever. Ball/Kerr has a good website with tested recipes, as does the National Center for Home Food Preservation, which are the two sites I know are considered safe (well I consider safe??).
That book is very very cool in the “Damn I love old books” way though!
Thanks for this, saved so I can access it offline. There’s a lot to be said for tested, proven methods even if they’re not exciting foods sometimes. My (70yr old) aunt made some canned chicken that looked extremely questionable a few years back. It was canned in its own broth so ended up being encased in a disgusting chicken gelatin. But I fuck with canned meats I’ll try it.
Once we finally got around to using it we were a little sad we hadn’t sooner. It was some of the tenderest most flavorful, real chicken I’d ever had.
Why LLMs exist and how to delete them?
This existed before LLMs grew popular. It’s sweatshop written filler, to game Google’s algorithm since it ranks long answers higher.
Unfortunately, this SEO “style” with giant padded answers may be why newer LLMs write the way they do, as they were trained on it.
yeah that all makes sense
It is an interesting question why explanatory and instruction-type websites all seem similar. In this article we will take a deep dive on how this came to be the case.
Between SEO garbage and AI slop the internet is fucked. As a 42 year old dude who fell in love with the internet and programming in the late 90’s and made a good living at making websites up until about 5 years ago it really hurts. Nothing is left of what I loved about it. The giant conglomocorps have taken everything over and turned it all to shit. Oh well… Old man shakes fist at sky I guess…
ah, I think we just need to adapt. there has always been counter culture, and every opportunity to suck any culturally relevant thing dry will happen, as you’ve observed. so, new spaces need to be cultivated ya know? I think lemmy is one of em to a certain extent, although it is already a little under siege
No no no no. We are legion. You are not alone. Let them have it. Here, have some popcorn while we watch our ship of Theseus go down in flames. Beautiful isn’t it. Now, what would you like to build next? Imagine the possibilities!
Same age, same story, same feeling. But somehow, I think we should cheer each others up.
Can I join? I can’t help with programming but I can bring pictures of cats…
You can haz cheezburger!
It was happening well before AI with shitty content-scraping “solution” sites. Some even put [SOLVED] in the page title. AI is just a compounding problem.
Yes, and AI was trained on all of that garbage. It’s like they took all the problems we had before and bred them together.
while I dislike that youre asking we constrict our collective digital sphincter in order to take less of a massive diarrhea shit on everything that AI is and represents, you’ve got a point
Reported to SlopStop.
I knew Hnin Oo Thazin. We met as coworkers at the Fnibattn Corporation, where we were assigned to work side-by-side in the Hrebstid division. Or attraction was instant.
I’ll always remember our late dinners at Grztlbeez, nighttime walks along the Drogcvegh River, and cocktails at Quuwnlky’s. We knew there could be no real future between us, as Hnin was betrothed from birth to Prince Braznasw of Drefsoply while my family back home in Rdawyxitned would never accept our forbidden love.
Our affair was brief, but burned brightly with the passionate fires of Fhqwhgads.
Those names sound plausible in the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
and now the comment is deleted. sehr conspiracy feely
I’ve said it before, but a whitelist search engine would be preferable for information. Immediately disregarding any website created after 2023 seems like a decent start.
That article is remarkably concise though. I usually get those that start at Adam and Eve or the Big Bang, eventually reach the invention of watches and never get to the point of automatic watches and their issues (or whatever specific problem I searched for).
Ironically enough using AI for searching actually spares me wading through slop at the moment.
I think your expectations have been ruined by AI sloup already if you think that is concise. although to be fair you did not define your relative threshold for the definition/conditions of remarkable lol
You should read past my 1st sentence. You missed the 2nd:
I usually get those that start at Adam and Eve or the Big Bang, eventually reach the invention of watches and never get to the point of automatic watches and their issues (or whatever specific problem I searched for).
I meant that article is remarkably concise FOR AI SLOP.
So I have noticed a new trend of websites hitting the top of the search results on duck duck go.
The website is always 3 names in a row or more like 3 random words, pretending to a be a blog writing about something.
Then it is usually a bullshit paragraph and then a bunch of seemingly unrelated affiliate links because it is just grabbing anything barely related to what you originally searched for.Seriously hampered my ability to find out anything about the bread maker I was looking at other than the cost of replacement parts.
Search engines have been made a joke.Whenever I need to look up general information, I filter to only show pages from before 2022. It removes the AI trash instantly.
Most general topics haven’t changed appreciably in the past 3 years.
I imagine a future where children speak of the “before times” and how when there was information on a thing called “paper” and how it wasn’t created by slop generators.
I’ve been doing the same thing but I’m still having some AI results pop up even with this. Maybe people are faking the publish date on their site or something, I don’t know.
thats great, the internet ended as a way to research a topic 3 years ago :(
Books are being written with AI. Legislation is being written with AI. Lawyer arguments are being written with AI. Scholarly research is being written with AI.
Pretty sure it’s not just the internet.
This is one of the reasons I switched to Startpage and asked it to hide any AI results.
Super ironic how unaware you are.
You’re ruining lemmy by posting screenshots of headlines. GET OUT.
l linked to the article. I also copied some of the copy as well. I posed a screen shot of the part that I wanted to share, meaning the visual bit that I intended other people to see as part of my post.
I looked at your comments, and not all, but in many of them you just kinda insult people and insinuate that you’re smarter than everyone else. If you want to spend your time doing that, thats your prerogative and everything of course, but I’d ask you to ask yourself if anyone is going to take the points you’re making when you come off like a prick
I’m doing my part to make this a better place.
If you’re going to be posting images of headlines, you’re doing the opposite. Stop.
its not a headline my guy, its a slop farm website posing as a blog. whats your deal?
GeT oOouUt
Because it unnecessarily increases hosting costs which may put the community in peril?
Is that why university students shouldn’t be using AI?
I read an interesting analogy recently:
Imagine the world before cars. Now imagine an American company suddenly releasing 100 billion cars all over the world for everyone to drive. There are no roads, signs, lights, rules, laws or pedestrian crossings.
That’s kind of the situation with AI now.
Except that cars are genuinely useful.
We need a publicly funded and democratically controlled search engine. As long as there’s a profit motive, enshitification will follow.
ok lets do it. do you know anything about compuders?
“Publicly funded” as in government funded, like the Post Office.
… in fact, in the US it should literally be run by the Post Office.
Why not the library system?
Public libraries are run by states and cities and universities and NGOs and such, which would limit their ability scale. After all, the American Library Association is actually just a non-profit. At best they could buy a subscription service or something, like Kagi.
On the other hand the Post Office has a Federal mandate, which gives it a lot more power and potential funding. The Post Office could actually build the infrastructure needed to become a useful search tool, rather than rely on public-private partnership.
