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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 26346802, member: 59677&quot;]It&#039;s a much more serious problem than that. While the AI garbage is garbage, it&#039;s getting top billing and pushing aside the search results we&#039;ve all depended on for decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m writing Google off and exploring alternatives...</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Bing is not much better.</p><p><br /></p><p>DuckDuckGo uses Bing&#039;s data but w/o the stochastic parrot garbage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was pointed at the paid service,&nbsp; Kagi, but warned it is either good or bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>The web that we knew is dead, and there is no viable replacement.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Faustian bargain between sites and search engines (we scrape you but we send you traffic) is gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sites are seeing 50% down to 10% of the traffic they used to see. And that means advertising isn&#039;t viable.</p><p><br /></p><p>No advertising and most sites just disappear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or they become AI generated bunk, feeding back into themselves. Amplifying stupidity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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