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    And hence why we call it “métrage” in French, as in “un long métrage” (a feature film) and “in court métrage” (a short film) ; because we measure in metres !

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    Sadly I have generally watched in horror as my friends quote Gemini slop as fact checking on the regular, because it’s the default search result.

    I speak up about it, and explain why it’s problematic. Doesn’t matter. It’s convenient.

    Convenience always wins.

    We’re cooked.

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      I know people that will complain about the crappy results but then not use a different search engine. Like it’s too much cognitive load to go to duckduckgo or qwant or whatever

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        To be fair, duck duck go also has some garbage results compared to like 2015 google. I have used ddg for the past several years and many topics yield terrible results. I was “the good googler” amongst my peers at the time. I haven’t tried qwant, so it might be better. A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.

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      Hmm, makes me wonder if a big factor is that it reads the first couple of results and summarizes it. Like if it was turned off, people wouldn’t bother clicking through and reading, so they just leave and and “fact” get saved in their brains. If they were really motivated, they would click through and read and come to the same incorrect conclusions but most don’t bother so the misinformation doesn’t propagate as easily

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        This was always a thing. The results on page 1 had a much greater click rate than on page 2+

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          That used to be a direct result of how good the search was. In the aughts it was generally on page 1 or you had to rephrase your query; the remaining results were the era’s equivalent of ‘slop’, link trees and redirect rabbit holes and plaintext sites with random stolen content. I was met with genuine surprise any time I found what I was looking for on page 3 or 4

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    Merriam-Webster is a source of factual information. Factual information is woke or something. Elon doesn’t allow grok to consider anything woke in its answers. Therefore grok doesn’t get the info from Merriam-Webster.

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    ROFL I always wonder if we are totally cooked as a society, if the billionaires are going to get what they want. Sometimes, I think so. However, there are enough people that thing LLMs are total bullshit and won’t be lured in. Good on Merriam-Webster to clap back on grok induced stupidity!

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    There are many different tiers and types of AI users. Anyone who uses Grok might not be eligible for the death penalty in the US due to diminished capacity.

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      They would in a type of society where it’s considered evidence of imperfect genes.

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      GROK: Go waterskiing naked & sitting down, only do it on a road with a car.

      USER: Sounds fun, thx!

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    To be fair, I wouldn’t expect grok to be using actual facts and reputable sources as its baseline knowledge, given its owner.