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.
Sure. I had that with computer stuff. Troubleshooting, programming tutorials, particularly bad with comparing software and products. Same with cooking recipes and phrases/mottos/congratulations to write on someone’s birthday/wedding postcard… A good chunk is just slop. Or someone wrote a few sentences themselves but “enhanced” it to be surrounded by 5 pages of slop.
And doesn’t make a lot of sense for the reader. I mean if I wanted an AI answer, I could just ask ChatGPT directly. I don’t need someone else to pre-generate that and put it on a website?! That’d be kind of the point of AI.