I search: garnet ant ring
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This new kind of "search correction" is like some kind of horrible forced normie filter for life.
You must mean whatever is more popular. And not "did you mean?" either... just not even bothering to show you the results for what you wanted to search for in the first place.
It's really insulting.
Anti-ant bias. I'm disgusted.
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I search: garnet ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet and ringI try: garnet "ant" ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "and" ringI try: garnet "ant" ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and ringI try: garnet "ant" ant insect ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and insect ant ringThis is a wonderful technology that makes search so much easier. This was on etsy.
@futurebird There's a button to un-autocorrect.
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@futurebird There's a button to un-autocorrect.
This was not google this was on etsy.
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This was not google this was on etsy.
@futurebird Oh, my bad. Although I guess you could try "site:etsy.com" and using Google search instead.
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This was not google this was on etsy.
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Hmm. My garnet ant ring search went without a hitch on etsy. I wonder what our difference is? -
@futurebird Oh, my bad. Although I guess you could try "site:etsy.com" and using Google search instead.
I'm not looking for a solution I'm pointing out a flaw.
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@futurebird
Hmm. My garnet ant ring search went without a hitch on etsy. I wonder what our difference is?It might be because I added the relevant results to one of my lists?
Because it works for me now and shows the items I added to the list with the last search first.
Did you see this:
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I search: garnet ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet and ringI try: garnet "ant" ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "and" ringI try: garnet "ant" ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and ringI try: garnet "ant" ant insect ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and insect ant ringThis is a wonderful technology that makes search so much easier. This was on etsy.
if i try to search on my own name "ben royce"
it corrects it to "beyonce"i can't say i have a problem with it
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if i try to search on my own name "ben royce"
it corrects it to "beyonce"i can't say i have a problem with it
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Anti-ant bias. I'm disgusted.
This is an example of what the search correction was hiding from me:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1102303353/garnet-buoy-ant-1-surfing-ant?
It's a sculpture of a **surfing ant** with a garnet for her abdomen. I deserve to see this. LMAO. Who else should see this exactly?
I wonder if this "feature" is helping sales much? Seems like it's making the best thing etsy can offer, you know, stuff you can't find anywhere else, harder to find.
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This new kind of "search correction" is like some kind of horrible forced normie filter for life.
You must mean whatever is more popular. And not "did you mean?" either... just not even bothering to show you the results for what you wanted to search for in the first place.
It's really insulting.
@futurebird the other day I tried to look up how underwater tunnels are built, and every answer was Minecraft
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This new kind of "search correction" is like some kind of horrible forced normie filter for life.
You must mean whatever is more popular. And not "did you mean?" either... just not even bothering to show you the results for what you wanted to search for in the first place.
It's really insulting.
@futurebird I frequently talk about this as search abandoning the concept of delivering what the user wants in favor of trying to mold the user to want what it's willing to give. I wish I believed this was incompetence rather than a malicious attempt to reshape people into more docile and lucrative consumers/subjects, but at this point I really think big tech has undeniably shown they are out to control, not serve, the public
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@futurebird I frequently talk about this as search abandoning the concept of delivering what the user wants in favor of trying to mold the user to want what it's willing to give. I wish I believed this was incompetence rather than a malicious attempt to reshape people into more docile and lucrative consumers/subjects, but at this point I really think big tech has undeniably shown they are out to control, not serve, the public
@funkula @futurebird it's infuriating. I'm a fiction writer. I often search for specific things & the computer overlords are sure I'm looking for something else.
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@futurebird I frequently talk about this as search abandoning the concept of delivering what the user wants in favor of trying to mold the user to want what it's willing to give. I wish I believed this was incompetence rather than a malicious attempt to reshape people into more docile and lucrative consumers/subjects, but at this point I really think big tech has undeniably shown they are out to control, not serve, the public
It gives me the same sad feeling I get when I hear people talking about how much they "depend" on an LLM.
But... it's just sanding all of the difference out of everything. Doesn't that make you sad too? Doesn't it feel gross to get any sense of validation from such a source?
One woman said she didn't want to bother real people with all her insecure questions. It's just sad all around.
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@funkula @futurebird it's infuriating. I'm a fiction writer. I often search for specific things & the computer overlords are sure I'm looking for something else.
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I search: garnet ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet and ringI try: garnet "ant" ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "and" ringI try: garnet "ant" ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and ringI try: garnet "ant" ant insect ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and insect ant ringThis is a wonderful technology that makes search so much easier. This was on etsy.
@futurebird
Did this Etsy creator follow a DIY SEO guide, but they got the sign wrong on the optimization? -
@futurebird
Did this Etsy creator follow a DIY SEO guide, but they got the sign wrong on the optimization?I was searching the whole site? But whatever they have done to the search it's very annoying.
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It gives me the same sad feeling I get when I hear people talking about how much they "depend" on an LLM.
But... it's just sanding all of the difference out of everything. Doesn't that make you sad too? Doesn't it feel gross to get any sense of validation from such a source?
One woman said she didn't want to bother real people with all her insecure questions. It's just sad all around.
Sometimes I feel very confident that the possible social and economic impact of AI is being overblown because so much of it is like a toy whose novelty wears off.
I remember that people talked to the chat bot ELIZA for many hours before growing bored with it and seeing the limitations.
But, I do wonder if I'm just wrong. Maybe there are a lot of people who will want to use LLMs a lot and they will never stop. And it will slowly start to shape our world.
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It gives me the same sad feeling I get when I hear people talking about how much they "depend" on an LLM.
But... it's just sanding all of the difference out of everything. Doesn't that make you sad too? Doesn't it feel gross to get any sense of validation from such a source?
One woman said she didn't want to bother real people with all her insecure questions. It's just sad all around.
@futurebird @funkula I can't say whether it's by design or not, but I haven't help but feel that either way, this sort of stuff will have the end result of isolating and disempowering so many people.
For platform vendors, that kind of dependency is an asset. For societies, it is poison, I think.
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Sometimes I feel very confident that the possible social and economic impact of AI is being overblown because so much of it is like a toy whose novelty wears off.
I remember that people talked to the chat bot ELIZA for many hours before growing bored with it and seeing the limitations.
But, I do wonder if I'm just wrong. Maybe there are a lot of people who will want to use LLMs a lot and they will never stop. And it will slowly start to shape our world.
I don't think any serious person really believes in the AGI fairy-tale anymore. "The machine will learn to improve itself and become god like!"
But there is a softer version of LLMs growing to dominate our world. If a significant portion of the population decides to treat these systems like their best friend and confidant all of those people become very easy to manipulate.
And this is exactly how the people creating these systems expect to cash in.
Forget traditional advertising.
