I search: garnet ant ring

myrmepropagandist

I search: garnet ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet and ring

I try: garnet "ant" ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "and" ring

I try: garnet "ant" ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and ring

I try: garnet "ant" ant insect ant ring
Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and insect ant ring

This is a wonderful technology that makes search so much easier. This was on etsy.

myrmepropagandist

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.

myrmepropagandist

Anti-ant bias. I'm disgusted.

stilescrisis

@futurebird There's a button to un-autocorrect.

myrmepropagandist

@stilescrisis

This was not google this was on etsy.

stilescrisis

@futurebird Oh, my bad. Although I guess you could try "site:etsy.com" and using Google search instead.

John K

@futurebird
Hmm. My garnet ant ring search went without a hitch on etsy. I wonder what our difference is?

@stilescrisis

myrmepropagandist

@stilescrisis

I'm not looking for a solution I'm pointing out a flaw.

myrmepropagandist

@snork303 @stilescrisis

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:

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@futurebird

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

myrmepropagandist

@benroyce

I like you a lot but that is kind of an upgrade.

It's still annoying though.

myrmepropagandist

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.

Laukidh

@futurebird the other day I tried to look up how underwater tunnels are built, and every answer was Minecraft

Mobile Suit Larry

@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

LJ

@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.

myrmepropagandist

@funkula

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.

myrmepropagandist

@LJ @funkula

It triggers some kind of deep annoyances that go back to childhood for me. That feeling of being told "no you don't want THAT"

swope

@futurebird
Did this Etsy creator follow a DIY SEO guide, but they got the sign wrong on the optimization?

myrmepropagandist

@swope

I was searching the whole site? But whatever they have done to the search it's very annoying.

myrmepropagandist

@funkula

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.

Chebucto Regional Softball Club

I search: garnet ant ring