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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

Duckduckgo search assist is not quite flawless

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Duckduckgo search assist is not quite flawless

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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    S U P E R I N T E L L I G E N C E

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    Oh, no, all the continent is now EU associate member.

    Gringoland should now join BRICS.

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    Yes, we all know AI sucks, stop spamming Lemmy with slop.

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    Not only was it wrong, it even missed Canada being a double secret non-existent “associate member” of EU.

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      Canada has had and currently has a prime minister, though 🤷🏻

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        IDK Trump says it’s only a governor https://thehill.com/policy/international/5031915-donald-trump-justin-trudeau-governor-canada/

        If Trump calling the body of water south east of Texas “The Gulf of America” and that great lake for “Lake America”, then he must have the power to also re-title the political leader of Canada… Or something /s

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    Reasonably sure my translation is correct, and switzerland has a “prime minister”, but that role foes not actually do more than be the head secretary for the Executive council.

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    Move over, flat-Earthers, the time has finally come for the giant Europe conspiracy theory.

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      Europe is at right angles to the flat Earth, which is why we have shadows.

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      Basically, Botswana and New Zealand are the only countries NOT in Europe, and in the case of the latter it’s because it doesn’t actually exist.

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        Contemporary Zealand?

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          I prefer Original Recipe Zealand myself

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            That would be in the Netherlands.

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              You’re thinking of Zeeland. Zealand is in Denmark

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                The Zealand referred to in New Zealand is in fact Zeeland, they just changed the spelling.

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        They always insist Old Zealand was replaced in the 19th Century; don’t believe it people!

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          Nah, Old Zealand is still over there

          points east to other part of Denmark

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            It’s actually the Dutch province of Zeeland which is notable for being otherwise completely unnotable.

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              It’s actually the Dutch province of Zeeland

              Nope. Zee ≠ Zea

              which is notable for being otherwise completely unnotable.

              Lots of islands like that in Denmark 😄

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                New Zealand was named Nova Zeelandia by Dutch cartographers which was then Anglicised to New Zealand. It’s named after the Dutch province. Denmark had nothing to do with it.

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                No he’s right, it’s named after the Dutch province. Coincidence that Sjælland is written Zealand

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        We’re going to get on so many podcasts.

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          We’re gonna be hundredaires! 🥳

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        Middle Zealanders rise up!

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      I mean, Europeans colonized the Americas, so…

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    EUROPA UNIVERSALIS

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      Personally, I prefer Crusader Kings

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    If you’re using the LLM generated results you need to stop. They’re going away or becoming subscription services soon anyway and all we’re doing now is harm.

    Disclaimer: I am also guilty of this and trying to cut it out slowly.

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      No there will be always free tier of LLM’s. For data collection, advertising, improving model output etc. Maybe they will reduce the free quata but i don’t think they completly remove it. Ohh sorry you are talking about search engine’s LLM results. Okey they may go.

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      If you’re using the LLM generated results you need to stop

      Don’t worry, I’m not. I just keep forgetting to put in the noai part of the address

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        You can also change your settings to remove ai and it should remember them for the device.

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          I didn’t know that, thanks!

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    Why are you using any AI for search results? Just turn it off and use DDG as a normal search engine. Problem solved.

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      Why are you using any AI for search results?

      Not by choice. I just can’t be bothered to type in the noai address every time my ADHD brain gets a sudden thought and wants to look something up

      use DDG as a normal search engine

      That’s what I’m already doing 🤷🏻

      Problem solved.

      I never said I had a problem 😁

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        If you’re on Firefox you can just manually add

        https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

        as a search engine and use it from the URL bar.

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        Set the noai address as your default search engine 🤷

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    Well, in my experience, at least is still better than Gemini.

    I can’t believe that Google of all companies in the AI space have created the most dog shit AI.

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      the most dog shit AI.

      For you. I bet it’s useful for their cash flow, not accounting the dev cost.

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        The fact that every single search query is fed through Gemini has made Google worse than its competitors, ergo, Dog shit.

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          Yeah but since they have a shitload of users already they can push whatever they want thru gemini and face zero repercussions

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      Gemini or the garbage they put in the search engine?

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        Both.

        The reason why Google’s search quality has gone downhill so quickly it’s because, rather than your search query being put though it’s search engine, it’s being put through Gemini to make their AI numbers look better to investors.

        All of this is made worse by the fact that Gemini, itself, isn’t very good as chat bots go, at least compared to it’s competitors.

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    Wish they’d just scrap it. Makes me want to migrate to qwant (despite disliking their lack of bang syntax). Or more accurately, I’m trying to migrate to qwant because of it, but I’ve still not converted completely.

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      Startpage clearly separates their non ai and ai search engine

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      https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

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        Thanks. But they enshitified their main product enough that an opt out is worse than going to up and coming European alternatives. The future lies there for me.

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    Their normal search is now near useless as well.

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      Nah, that’s Google you’re thinking of.

      DDG isn’t GOOD, but it’s almost always good enough to eventually find what I need. Unlike Google, which is just ads and other useless results now.

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        Mmm I’m sorry but I’m going to have to disagree. Google’s results are still better than ddg, which sources them from bing. In my experience, it is even more susceptible to SEO spam than google, even though both are pretty bad.

        To me, search engines with interesting results are more stuff like marginalia and mojeek, but those are niche and not really for most people. They also have a tendency to give results that have nothing to do with the query, which is sad :(

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      I’m pretty sure this is because Bing is the index source for general searching: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources

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    To be fair, Canada is looking to “join” the EU, Turkey is already a member. What is Europe anyway?

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      And both Australia and the West’s favorite fascist apartheid state participate in the Eurovision Song Contest (Becau$e).

      What is Europe anyway?

      A Swedish band from the 80s, their big hit was The Final Countdown

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        https://youtube.com/watch?v=KskaUMuARR8

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      Turkey is not an EU member and stands no chance until they get rid of Erdogan.

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