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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Stop using generative AI as a search engine

www.theverge.com

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Stop using generative AI as a search engine

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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
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    Start using SearXNG.

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      deleted by creator

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        But you don’t use a spell check?

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        Can you briefly explain how this works? Do you have a link or something similar?

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          There are many projects just search for clones of perplexity most use searxng + llms. I used one recently called yokingma / Search_with_ai But there are others

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            Thanks for the new rabbit hole! 😁

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        brother eww

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      searX still uses the same search engines.

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        Yes, however, using a public SearXNG instance makes your searches effectively private, since it’s the server doing them, not you. It also does not use generative AI to produce the results, and won’t until or unless the ability for normal searches is removed.

        And at that point, you can just disable that engine for searching.

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          from a privacy perspective…
          you might as well use a vpn or tor. same thing.

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            Yes, but that’s not the only benefit to it. It’s a metasearch engine, meaning it searches all the individual sites you ask for, and combines the results into one page. This makes it more akin to DDG, but it doesn’t just use one search provider.

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              it’s a fantastic metasearch engine. but also people frequently dont configure it to its max potential IMO . one common mishap is the frequent default setting of sending queries to google. 💩

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