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.

  • lietuva@lemmy.world
    58·
    2 days ago

    And then some bs article is like this :

    Step 1. Make sure you connected to internet

    Step 2. Make sure your drivers are updated

    Step 3. Restart your pc

    Step 4. Delete cache

    Step 5. Download some obscure tool

    (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

    • AAA@feddit.org
      21·
      2 days ago

      Those articles sole purpose is to get you to install the obscure tool. The unhelpfulness of the first couple steps is a feature, not a bug.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Yep, that’s good ol’ human-generated SEO spam. Look up every problem someone might have, offer extremely generic advice, present paid tool as a solution.