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It works wonderfully well as a search engine, when I have to find obscure specialized info. Can always criss check once I have a idea.
Regular search engines did that 20 years ago, without blowing out the power grid.
Yeah then people.learned how to game it and its shit now. Pointing how something worked 20 years ago does shit all for how it works now
Speak of the devil. Just a few stories down
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/835839/google-discover-ai-headlines-clickbait-nonsense
Ah, but you see, they don't do it now.
And now we have something better. I'm all for a better grid running on renewables though, which is the actual problem.
Because companies destroyed actual search engines in the race for billions of dollars.
Kagi, searx are fricken awesome and much like the web in mid 2000s before corporations destroyed it.
Its not a search engine, its a data digester. Dont use it as a search engine. Despite what alphabet, micro-shit, and DDG think, AI chatbots do not now, nor will they ever make good search engines.
This is a prime example of why access to these tools should be restricted to computer scientists and research labs. The average person doesn't know how to use them effectively (resulting in enormous power wasted by 'prompt engineering'), and the standard available models aren't good at digesting non-linguistic data.
I'm not gonna downvote you, or be like all "AI is the devil and its gonna kill us all" but people need to use it correctly or agree going to kill ourselves with its waste heat.