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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen

@Gilgamesch @paninid so the user has to adapt to the technology in order for it not to lie? Sound like something that is pretty useless.

1 September at 9:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to
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Gilgamesch

@toriver @paninid But the technology doesn't lie in this particular case. Austria-Hungary obviously never went to space, so it gives you a search result from a very popular, thus very "SEO-friendly", steampunk fantasy site.
I'll never forget what a friend of mine said to me in Elementary School (!) almost 30 years ago:
"A computer is only as intelligent as the person sitting in front of it."
We as a species need more media competence and thus source checking.

1 September at 10:47 | Open on mastodon.social
Gilgamesch

@toriver @paninid For example this is the answer google gives me, but I'm not logged into my google account. Plus I'm using privacy tools like ublock, cookie destroyers and noscript. A search result can be influenced by a lot of things. But these are the parameters one has to know, if using a technology.
1 September at 10:54 | Open on mastodon.social
Alexander Shendi
Gilgamesch

@alexshendi @toriver @paninid Well maybe, but in this case no. Look what I get when I just use a conjunction.
If you don't know what you are looking for, how should a search engine know?
1 September at 11:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Bjørnar 🇧🇻

@Gilgamesch @toriver
Search engines aren't marketed for and used only by people who already know what they're searching for though. One major use for your average Joe is to check if a thing you just read or was told is true. Sure, the number of people who can't spot this one is low, but this is now a risk for any search, and it's getting worse, not better.

1 September at 15:40 | Open on social.coop
Gilgamesch

@btuftin @toriver Of course they aren't. That's why you have to educate people. And I'm not saying that it's not getting worse with "AI". It is, because you don't have access to the source of the "knowledge".
I'm just saying, that this particular example isn't what it means, when someone says "google's getting worse". Plus, the source is right there. Who says he didn't look exactly for this steampunk setting?

1 September at 16:08 | Open on mastodon.social
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