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K.A. Doore
@kadoore.com

The internet as a source of useful information is truly dead/actively dying and I hate it. I used to be able to find helpful tutorials on almost anything, but the last month whenever I try to find a how-to, guide, or tutorial, 99% of the websites are LLM-generated and completely useless.

K.A. Doore
@kadoore.com

It sucks even more because usually I don't know enough about the topic (like, recently, sewing) to know when something is wrong right away. Which is why I'm looking for a guide. So I'll get 1/3 of the way through reading instructions before I notice an LLM tell and realize I've just wasted my time.

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K.A. Doore
@kadoore.com

I don't know what the solution is. Wikihow still seems pretty solid. Tutorials from pre-2022 seem decent. But it's harder to find those amongst sheer tonnage of LLM-generated slop webpages. T_T

K.A. Doore
@kadoore.com

For now, I've gone back to bookmarking seemingly reliable websites and starting there instead of using any search. Even DuckDuckGo and Kagi are struggling and giving me LLM-gen sites 3/4 of the time, so it's not just a Google problem. tbf I don't even bother with Google anymore.