And then everyone applauded.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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The fact is though the average person is starting to replace their search engine with chatgpt, gemini, grok or whatever other llm and I have seen more and more small association using generative ai to make their posters instead of working with artist or doing it themselves.
Is this because LLMs are getting better, or because search engines are getting worse?
Because they are definitely getting worse. I get redirected to a brand new slopsite daily.
Search engines have peaked in early 2010s and hav been deteriorating ever since, becoming virtually unusable since ~2020.
Seriously, google has become unusabe without adding "site:reddit.com" to almost every search. I would like to see something like Perplexity be compared to a proper search engine - if it existed.
I never said llm's or generative ai is good. I was talking about post just being wishfull thinking.
The fact is though the average person is starting to replace their search engine with chatgpt, gemini, grok or whatever
Yeah, and it makes sense for the average person to do that. Because Google, Bing, etc, have enshittified their search results so badly that the first few pages of results for any question are almost guaranteed to be AI-generated websites anyway. So you can take the answer the AI gives you, or you can click through to an AI generated website, which is just using the AI with extra steps. Or you can commit the extra time and energy to actually get a useful result written by a human being, which is significantly harder than it used to be, because the useful results are hidden behind decades of search engine optimization and the last few years of AI slop.
None of those options are actually good.
The ubiquity of LLMs hasn't made search results better. It's made people more willing to accept worse results.
Then everyone in class stood up and clapped.
It's a meme, but at least in my childhood it did occasionally happen, the "whole class clapping" thing. One time I did really good in a second year Spanish class end of term activity. A girl proposed on the spot, and the whole class clapped. Intensely embarrassing but, as far as I can recall, it was not even sarcastic.
ALL the cool kids hate AI. You want to be cool, don't you? Come on, everyone, let's hate the latest marvel of technological innovation together!
It uses electricity, which nothing else does. It uses water, which is then destroyed forever and can never be used again after it's been used once for AI. It's occasionally wrong, which nothing else ever is. It makes billionaires richer, which nothing else ever does. It reduces your creativity, which everyone has in spades. It discourages you from thinking for yourself, unlike the mob mentality telling you to hate it.
Stop acknowledging the many positives and just accept instead that it's only ever going to be horrible. Forever. Always in all ways. It's time to turn off your brains and just hate AI with us. Woo! 🥳
Did you write this or just prompt it?
The mudslide of AI slop on YouTube is like digital gangrene, the brainrot has gone down the stem into the organs. We're done as a species.
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And then everyone clapped.
I do not hate AI, I am learning how to use it. AI is really great technology and like a calculator, you can be more productive when you know how to use it.
I only used Venice.ai because it stores everything in my browser (which I can erase immediately). It is just fun to get things off my chest and use a rubber ducky method for any issue I might be having, but it has been useless otherwise.
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