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.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    121·
    6 days ago

    Part of this is Google’s and YT’s platform decaying, not just AI. Before AI, Google was infected with ads and listicles. Before any of that you had a million forum replies amounting to “Just google it!” (I am, wise guy, that’s how I ran into your post in the first place.) If not that, then it was “RTFM” (Maybe if you had a technical writer write a better manual and not have the devs write it who don’t realize there are people that don’t have the intimate knowledge of this obscure software package that they do and thus don’t bother mentioning stuff that’s ‘obvious’ to them and literally no one else.)

    And don’t get me started on the landfill that is Stack Overflow.