You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore
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Off topic - on Voyager on iOS, and the thumbnail is upside-down? Anybody else?
Nah, I'm in Australia, finally something right side up in the internet
It's intentional.
Same on Thunder, I thought it's intentional
Voyager on Android as well. It MUST be intentional. No?
Same on eternity
Is Eternity still receiving updates?
I hear it feels like an eternity between them.
I’ll see myself out.
Accurate
Same on Voyager on Android
Yes, I am too upside down.
Insert 'always has been meme'
Insert last part of the page:
I read the whole thing and I wasn't 100% what the point was beyond the title. I still feel like responding with "it always has been."
I guess it's that they like to give new websites she finds the benefit of the doubt for the off chance that she might gain new knowledge about a subject, but:
people perpetuate misinformation to make a quick buck off as revenue
LLMs make the problem even worse
they feel powerless to do anything about it
None of which is an excitingly new revelation if you have been paying attention for the last decade or so.
But as someone looking for a copy of Phantasy Star, I found out there's a reprint of it on Genesis thanks to this blog, so that's good! Now to see if they're telling the truth...
its way worse, a couple of years ago id look something up (had to be somewhat popular) and find a few clearly bullshit articles because they follow similar scripts, and rarely make new ones.
nowadays every time I look something up there's a new ai article site that talks about this very niche thing im looking for, and skimming through it looks somewhat convincing
It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.
I found a Pi Hole blocklist that filters out known ai slop websites but even then they're still clogging up my DDG result. Such a pain.
Also: Phantasy Star is great! Have you played the Sega Ages release? It adds some really cool stuff to make it more playable.
Could you please share that blocklist? Anything that can slow down Ai slop is a win in my opinion.
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Thanks so much.
Hell yeah the Sega Ages version is the definitive way to play. The built in dungeon map is a must if you don't want to lose your mind having to manually map it out yourself. I never knew the FM chip had such a drastic improvement to the soundtrack before this version came out. Add on the scan line filter and it's retro gaming bliss.
From me, further down:
Copy your pihole list, edit the 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 out and import it there, done.
Wow. I got a few links deep.
I've just recently told my family that modern tech is pushing me to become a Luddite.
To some extent, I think that this is a solveable problem in terms of just weighting domain age and reputation more highly in search engines (and maybe in LLM training stuff).
The problem is that then you wind up with a situation where it's hard for new media sources to compete with established incumbents, because the incumbents have all that reputation and new entrants have to build theirs, and new entrants get deprioritized by search engines.
I think that maybe there's an argument that you could also provide a couple of user-configurable parameters on search engines to permit not deprioritizing newer sites and the like.
Another issue is that reputation can be bought and sold. This is not new. For example, you can buy a reputatable, established news source and then change its content to be less reputable but promote a message that you want. That will, over time, burn its credibility, but as long as the return you get is worth what you've spent...shrugs
If someone says AI is reliable ask them to ask AI who they are, like we used to Google ourselves. It will spit out some bullshit for sure (except if your friend is famous, but maybe even in that case).
There's https://noai.duckduckgo.com/. And also the Google Hit Hider by Domain userscript, which, despite the name, works on a bunch of search engines.
Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?
Also, sites that are 'strange and a bit obscure' are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They're likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.