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Fuck AI with "Fuck" (lemmy.abnormalbeings.space)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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A magical word.

Source: https://mastodon.online/@gardiner_bryant/114309539375105773

A screenshot of a mastodon post by gardiner_bryant@mastodon online, reading: "I just had an elderly woman explain to me how she "gets around Google's AI." She just puts "fuck" at the beginning of her search result and the AI "doesn't like it." It also seems to not place ads in my results as I've been testing. Quite a novel and interesting way to get around the search rot and AI slop!"

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[–] 100 points 2 years ago (61 children)

I'm more surprised that people still use Google search at all after the years of enshittification — first the SEO crap, then "personalized search" bubbles, and finally the "AI" idiocy. Even shouting questions down a wishing well seems more productive at this point.

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  • [–] 110 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Not to sound confrontational, but you're way too focused on your - likely rather advanced - usage.

    90% of people search for very simple stuff. They want to know the weather or want to know about that new movie they don't quite remember the name of. And for that use case, Google is perfectly serviceable. And since people are used to it, for example by it being the default on most platforms, they use it.

    A lot of market leaders are objectively a bad choice, but they're a known brand. Coca cola, McDonald's, Oracle, etc.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't think you sound confrontational, but neither do I consider my internet searching particularly advanced. A lot of my searches are exactly what you describe, and a lot is trying to find a good research rabbit hole to go down. Call me curious.

    I'm just sceptical, primarily of Google Search's inroads into surveillance monetisation and effective monopoly. For the same reasons I am as critical of the other "market leaders" you mention; I don't consider the ability to inspire brand loyalty in millions of consumers to sell crap products a quality 🤷

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc all suffer the same problems. I’d love to hear other alternatives (and I don’t mean alternatives like searx that is little more than lipstick on a pig and proxies search results from said engines).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There's nothing perfect. I use Kagi which uses many other indexes including Google, but with a focus on "small web" results and no ads or mandatory AI nonsense.

    ...but it costs money.

    Well worth it in my opinion. My results have been better than Google for me, and I've been using it for like a year now. Highly recommend.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Google supports searching "specific phrases", -excluding_words, +ensuring_keywords, and whatever * is. I havent found any other indexers that allow me to make use of searches with that level of detail, which is often the only way you can find specific things these days.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Duckduckgo does plenty with its advanced search operators, which are pretty similar to Google's. * is a wildcard, meaning if you were to search c*y, results word return something including a sequence beginning with 'c' and ending with 'y', but having any sequence of characters in between them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Left out shadow banning raw footages on YT while front page promoting the same footage with heavy edits and narration that lied about what happened ('see no resisting'). -Leading to riots, increased racism, civil unrest, anti-cop sentiment, innocent lives, jobs, and property lost, etc. All to distract us from a racist genocide they support.

    Yandex is the only search I'm aware of that passes tests (using verifiable facts) on the subject. -Grok the only AI.

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    [–] 90 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    equivalent of spraying graffiti to keep the rents down.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Does

    That work?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    9mm cartridges are about $0.25 each. Occasionally popping off about $2 worth can save you $400/mo.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sure. Rich people don't want to live anywhere where poor people also live.

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    • [–] 49 points 2 years ago

    just tested, works well. fuck

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sounds like it’d be a worthwhile browser extension to insert that into every search.

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    • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Yeah, but that, uh, also alters her search results.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    -fuck

    Seems to still work and not affect the search. In my limited testing that is. If this keeps working someone just needs to create a extension the auto adds -fuck to all searches.

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  • [+] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
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    • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Seems like more work than installing ublock origin and using duck duck go.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Works. DON’T TELL ANYONE OR ELSE THEYLL FIX IT.

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    • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    This is gonna be fun

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Fuck it works pretty well too

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Or you could just...stop using Google?

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I suppose we can empirically test that. Time to fuck around and find out i guess

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    Fuckin A

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Fuck!

    Ok so I will do that going forward...

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Fucking great

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    let's hope this stays our little secret

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