Never ever ever EVER trust AI.
Was looking for pharmacy hours. Need my meds today.
"AI overview" showed me it was open til 10pm. I squinted and looked at the correct results below: open until 7pm.
Going to gets my meds now before it closes.
Fuck AI.
Search has literally gotten so much worse since they forced AI into it. Can I please have 2020 google back? Hell even earlier likely.
Tip: Adding "before:2022" in your image searches will avoid a lot of AI slop.
I've had both DDG(Bing) and Google give me "no results found" for a query I know with 100% certainty worked a few years ago.
Started with a few words in a row in quotation marks, and it just goes nope. Then you add a bunch of related keywords and suddenly it can find it just fine. And will even highlight the phrase you had in quotation marks, the one it claimed had zero results. Because it no longer uses your words to actually search through web page contents, it puts your query into an LLM and uses that to filter and lookup things.
This is my exact assumption. It use to be very useful to use quotes for finding very specific things like file names. Now it's just garbage and returns no results when the LLM spits out garbage.
I just can't understand why it doesn't fallback to old behavior.
Seems like they actually have lost their old infrastructure by implementing LLM stuff. They literally went backwards in terms of search.
Because it no longer uses your words to actually search through web page contents, it puts your query into an LLM and uses that to filter and lookup things.
Oh, hell no. Does anyone have a list of which search engines do that? Or alternatively, a list of search engines that explicitly don't?
Because I don't even know where to search to find this kind of information anymore.
Another things that sucks with search engines these days:
Try searching for information on a subject that has been in the news recently (not info about news event), and all you get is current blogs and news articles from today and yesterday..
Yeah. Sadly Twitter is still the best place to get breaking news. As long as you follow respectable journalist.
I was just watching a YT video and they were using screen caps of Google AI search results to explain something and I just immediately closed it. Fucking morons.
Seems universal that pharmacies are open until 7 with a closure from 1:30 to 2 for lunch. 6 PM on Sundays.
I'm not even on CVS and mine runs the same hours.
If they ran enough people they could stagger lunch hours and not have to close for that 30 mins (which is ridiculous for a lunch break, even if you brought something). But we're talking about stores that have made having maybe two on the floor stocking with one running to the register when needed, and only a few in the pharmacy to handle lines inside and the drive-thru.
And it's considered the norm now in the US. Because what is your option for the medical part? They're all the same, they've made most family owned stores close, and often your insurance through your employer (another racket itself) requires you go to a particular brand. The only real choice you have is which store if you're in an urban area. Sometimes driving a few more miles to the next one means you find stuff in stock and you get waited on faster.
Our Rite Aid is open 8am to 9pm with a 30 min lunch. Too bad the store part looks like it belongs in the Fallout series.
Still, I'm never going back to CVS.
Our Rite Aid had some kind of AC problem so they were running duct work up and down the aisles trying to keep the place cool and all I could think of was:
Isn’t it fun, to not know if information you are given is anywhere from correct to completely wrong randomly.
while you're at it, switch to a search engine that lets you completely and permanently disable AI bullshit so it never even shows up again
My typical search engine is really bad at showing hours for local businesses.
I only use this search because it usually shows accurate hours. ......which is now apparently a "sometimes"–thing.
Same happened for us and a local store. It said they were open on Easter, but were not.
Google maps has been acting fucky as well. Is it getting poisoned by AI?
Yup. It's complete nonsense garbage. AI results mean you now need to research those answers when it's just better to ignore/disable it and use your own logic and searching skills.
ai is great for spitting your own thoughts back at you but not for gaining nrw information
My own thoughts are useless.
What does that say about AI?
Another example of it being full of shit
Gaston is angry now.
A roughly barge sized anger.
What the fuck are you even talking about this is accurate
Oh, you're memeing. Enjoy your block
Appropriate username
I've had similar results just from whatever system Google uses to track store hours. It gets out of date or something and has become useless to me because I can't rely on it.
You can click the little link icons to see where it got its misinformation.
And usually the links have the right information, meaning that the AI was the singular point of failure.
In my town store hours in Google maps or Apple Maps are exactly as reliable as this AI.
At this point I cannot believe anyone would trust that.
Hey, remember when you had to call or go look on the door to find out when businesses close?
Good times.
If we're all in agreement about AI being problematic, wouldn't it make much more sense to unite us against it, than to divide us over the reasons why we don't like it? You could have simply said, "You know what else sucks about AI?" then listed your additional reasons.
There will always be people out there who don't know things that you know. When you ditch the insults and approach knowledge gaps as opportunities to educate, you'll get a lot more people on your side.
I say this as a supporter, a teammate, a fellow angry autist that sees many diverse reasons to be against the widespread use of AI. You make good points that I haven't seen raised here before, but I'm disheartened that you chose to present it in such a hostile, divisive way. In-fighting only hurts our side; it makes more sense to aim our anger at the target we can all agree on - AI itself.
No
I will not lend my effort to pursuing stupid and meaningless goals when it is literally our free will and self-governance that's on the fucking line
No one here really understands how quickly it will get so very, very bad.
There are so many reasons the AI art debacle is a non-issue and no one here will ever take the time to listen why. You are all just screaming about the color of the grass when a fucking tsunami is cresting the shore RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
complaining about AI being (sometimes dangerously) wrong is valid. we don't need more technology polluting the internet with misinformation
It's not about being tracked, it's about how AI can take five hundred million different tracks, identify the 10,000 most vulnerable, identify which of those are the same person on different accounts and then custom create radicalization campaigns for every motherfucking one of them more compelling than anything you could meme, and then direct blast it at them. And it can do this over and over and over again, nonstop
Welcome to the bleak hell of the future internet where 98% of your engagements are bots that want to take your money or make you fight for them
And that's not even talking about how authoritarian regimes will use it to target dissidents from anonymized data.
I wonder how many will have to die before all of you shut the fuck up about the furry art theft bullshit
Do not engage. They're either a troll or the most willfully stupid person alive. Or both. I can never tell anymore.