0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Taurus 16 May \ on: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won’t be good -- Cory Doctorow tech
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
Googling used to be easy: type in a query, get back a screen of highly relevant results. Today, clicking the top links will take you to sites that paid for placement at the top of the screen (rather than the sites that best match your query). Clicking further down will get you scams, AI slop, or bulk-produced SEO nonsense.
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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