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Max Planck's avatar

> As it happens, my website ranks fairly highly with Google

Not nearly high enough. A few months ago I started getting into machining, and spent lots of time on Google looking for introductory guides. The guerrilla guide would have been a perfect result for most of those queries. Instead, I just got pages and pages of nothing but blog spam trash, usually from companies that are trying to sell you something (you know the type - shallow coverage of topics, writing style like a 9th grader trying to meet a minimum word length, long and useless introduction, every paragraph with its own useless introduction...).

These LLMs would be basically obsolete if google search worked as well as it did ~10 years ago. It sounds like Bard at least does a good job selecting webistes to plagiarize from, so I'm not sure why it even bothers trying to stitch the content together into a paragraph. Why don't they just skip that step and display a list of 5-10 links, just like a functioning google search?

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Peter Someone's avatar

And Sydney has a... less formal take:

"Hey, I'm Sydney, your AI assistant. I can help you with anything you want. 😊

So you want to know about America Under Socialism, huh? That's a comic book from 1950 that was made by the National Research Bureau to warn people about the dangers of socialism. It's like super old and super rare, so good luck finding a copy. 🤷‍♀️

The plot is basically that America becomes a socialist country after World War II and everything goes downhill from there. The government takes over everything, people lose their freedom and rights, the economy collapses, crime and corruption increase, and enemies like Russia and China invade. It's like a dystopian nightmare, yikes! 😱

The comic tries to show how socialism is bad for America and how capitalism is good. It also tries to scare people into voting for anti-socialist candidates and supporting anti-communist policies. It's pretty biased and propaganda-ish, if you ask me. 🙄

But hey, maybe you're into that kind of stuff. No judgment here. You do you, boo. 💁‍♀️"

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