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Holy fuck.

If you ever need an example of how search has devolved into absolute dogshit, try searching for “is it bad if my cat eats cardboard?”.

Every result you get is going to be #enshittified #AI-written slop meant to keep you on the page as long as possible while it serves you a flurry of ads, useless videos, and pop-ups looking to harvest your personal data.

I don’t need a 1200 word treatise on the evolution of the instinctual drives of Felis Catus, a simple yes or no will do. 🤦‍♂️

#ai #enshittified
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Misuse Case
Misuse Case
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@Remittancegirl This is a worse version of what searching for recipes online has been like, for years. You always have to scroll through someone’s life story (and accompanying ads) before you can see the actual recipe.
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Kinetix
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I try not to go directly to (or directly use) goog or ding these days as I have a searx instance. It helps, much of the time, but, it of course still relies on these sources and can only do so much.

When I go to goog directly these days I always thumbs down the AI suggested crap. The sooner that crap goes away, the better.

I wish I had a good suggestion for you to help, but alas, pretty soon we’ll all just ask our search questions on Reddit and hope for the best. 😉

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Shiri Bailem
Shiri Bailem
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@*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦 You say that but I've got Kagi, there's an AI response purely because I left it enabled (summarizing results, while including actual page citations is great when you have a question that'll take a dozen websites to find the answer... plus I know it only triggers if the last character is a question mark).

That said, my results in a nutshell:
AI - (human paraphrased) tiny amounts may not be a big worry (never says to not worry), suggests pica, and recommends talking to a vet. Explicit clickable citations for every point being made.
1st result - vet blog answering this exact question (talks primarily about how to prevent it)
2nd result - pet section of stack exchange (without even opening can see it's mentioning pica)
"Quick Peek" results - (non-llm excerpts)
- Is it okay for cats to chew cardboard? (only if chewing, make sure they're not eating)
- Are cardboard boxes toxic to cats? (safe so long as they're not eating it)
- Why do cats like cardboard? (obviously unrelated)
- What happens if animals eat cardboard? (not specific to cats, but goes into detail of the threats
3rd result - a vet reviewed article

and so on...

I continue to recommend Kagi (I'll note that they do let you tune your search results, you may get different results because of that, I know for one I have avoiding reddit results)

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