Anyone else experience this?
You run into a niche or weird issue. So you google “how to x”, “y not working on z” or “Error code: 123”; The 1st, 2nd, 3rd page are infected, probably 90% AI slop. Don’t have any luck even with the one blog post that was probably written by a human.
Now I have to go to YouTube. Look for a tutorial, 1st, 2nd, 3rd video all AI. AI voice, AI avatar, bot comments like “😍😍😍”.
Finally I reach a real video from a year or two ago that actually solved my issue. Took 4 hours when normally I could find it in 1 hour tops.
The Google search AI has been giving me like the obvious solutions. Like the three things I tried tne minutes ago before I googled it. I already checked the menu and couldn’t find the setting or I wouldn’t be trying to get help online. And then the next seven search results are videos that don’t quite match my search. And the finally somewhere I find some promising leads on some message board that would have been the top result 6 years ago.