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[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

AI is causing water shortages, rising electric costs and chip shortages. AI is just a fancy search engine, that can be a useful tool. It was awesome for ai to read my blood test results but I don't need it for most things, a waste of energy. Search engines should have an off button for ai, turn the lights off when we're not using it.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Google search used to be able to find answers in the old days.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The sad truth is that today traditional search engines have been run into the ground by SEO, and some how chatbots backed by LLMs are producing what Google used to call the "I'm feeling Lucky" button. It used to just automatically take you to the first result for your query which was usually what you wanted.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 25 points 1 day ago

Search engines should have an off button for ai,

Techbros won't let that happen, because they're all terrified that consumers will just shut off all the AI being crammed into everything and all their money will evaporate.