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On 2024-08-12, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 12:28:49 +0200, kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Nobody wants AI
>
> A search engine might be better with AI.
>
> If AI could summarize a topic in plain English, I would use.
>
> Students writing reports/etc. will become addicted to AI, just like
> they did with calculators (can't do math in their head, or on paper)
>

How about an algorithm that takes a webpage that has been SEO-ified and
enshittified beyond recognition and reduces it to the actual
information?  Example: get on a search engine and look for the recipe to
make a martini.  Your average webpage sharing a martini recipe is
multiple megabytes of shit and 1000+ words.  Give me an algorithm that
reduces it to a three or four line recipe.

It would be like feeding the lion its tail - forcing tech to eat tech.

Gopher still works great. None of the cruft, because there's no money in
it.