A long rant made of of tweets by Cory (with a bunch of links thrown in, as is his wont), but well worth the read. Notable pull-quote that kind of summarizes things:
AI search makes cheating so easy, and Google cheats so much.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 17 May
I have tried it, and it isnt significantly better at finding things.
I thought it would help me discover shit that might be on russian servers, but it didnt.
I could have found 99% of the results on a google search or wikipedia lol
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Taurus 16 May
Funny how the writer still thinks google is reliable.. They literally choose what you see + hundreds of cookies to track you.
AI search is useful for things that doesnt really matter -> ex: you looking for an easy cooking recipe or rules of a game etc. ArcSearch is a interesting one for this
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @_stacktoshi 16 May
A lot of coworkers use Arc. Does it respect privacy?
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Taurus 17 May
Def better than google or bing. Apparently you can ask for more: “Browse for Me uses OpenAI’s API Platform for commercial applications and all data sent to OpenAI via Browse for Me is eligible for zero data retention (ZDR). This feature is only available in the Arc Search app.“
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taurus 17 May
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taurus 17 May
https://arc.net/privacy#browse-for-me
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 16 May
He hardly thinks it's good today, just that AI's going to make it even worse.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taurus 17 May
Yeah true but I was referring to the first part: “ Google is no longer a convenient or reliable way to retrieve information”.
For me, we can’t talk of the past because it has never been that way.
just my opinion
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