Still, we keep googling because we keep expecting the internet to know things. That stubborn hope underpins almost every argument about information access. When search worsens, we grumble that Google has been enshittified. When AI hallucinates, we say the model is sloppy. When misinformation spreads, we reassure ourselves the truth is still “out there,” waiting patiently for us to string together a better query. Even as the web is polluted by AI slop, we cling to the belief it’s a skills problem and share search tips.
God how i hate ai. Because of its insistence on using outdated training data you have to tell it five times that is wrong before it will do a search. Then the political correctness filters kick in and turns the answer into a useless mass of "both sides have a point" that goes on for three pages. And in the end you have no idea what is real and what is hallucination.
So you do a DDG search and the results are two pages of ai generated slop.