this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Accidentally good.

It kills the click bait page view centric advertising model.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

This is the goal. Use your information to make money with no benefit to you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which will in time mitigate the need for advertising space on websites. As long as AI stays ad-free, maybe the internet will be great again.

[–] whyNotSquirrel 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah I don't really believe it either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I don’t think that’s how it works.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Wasn't this already true for those regurgitated clickbait SEO optimized pages that stole views away from the true original source?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always click on a link to give them a click. But all my searches are technical and seeing the context inside the page is usually needed. So I'm not the general person.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do that because the AI is wrong enough of the time to never be able to trust it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

True. It does not simply cut and paste. It often rewrites.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks to people who made the decision to push AI answers ahead of search results. AI is just a tool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Capitalism in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank goodness for search engines like startpage that still just gives you links and good results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's alright. It's still full of SEO and AI slop but less so than DDG, Google, or Bing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah i agree its not perfect but its better than anything I found so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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