please vote anonymously and boost this poll for transparency and participation:

[agowa338@chaos.social]

@falcennial Ngl, I'd prefer not to, but at this point it is seriously way better than google search...

(And that is mostly because of how enshittified the google search has become. Maybe I should just take some time and setup YaCy...)

[gup@mastodon.nl]

@falcennial When I was forced to, the experience was terrible.
I always ask to connect me to a human. Some do so, some stay in their stupid loop.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@falcennial less frequently than a few times a month, so I answered "not at all".

Pictured here: the most recent production, from a single 102-word prompt on 16th May.

#AI #ChatGPT

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116623156879039297

@bunny_jane you're welcome.

For the record: my extremely infrequent use of ChatGPT is almost invariably a response to needlessly aggressive haters of AI.

The greater the aggression, the greater the likelihood that I'll use AI to respond.

Hatred of AI: <https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/ecd4f2b6699f7e228af33b80b0e9b141#file-ai-hatred-md-readme> via <https://www.reddit.com/user/grahamperrin/comments/1t3cbl7/hatred_of_ai/>.

Reasons for blocking, and how to end a block: <https://www.reddit.com/user/grahamperrin/comments/1seol5k/reasons_for_blocking_and_how_to_end_a_block/> – pinned.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@falcennial/116618576826629364

@bunny_jane

"… no judgement has any right whatsoever to enter into the exercise. …"

If you prejudge me to be a proponent of AI, you'll be mistaken.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@UrbanCityCowboy is the loudspeaker now on the wagon?

Electronics plus liquid is rarely a good mix.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@farah spoken like a true fellow resident of beige.party

Here, have a sip of my own nonsense. This one's on the house.

<https://beige.party/@fuzzy/116527118653060773>

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116623085407155385

@falcennial @indigoparadox

[chiffchaff@tech.lgbt]

@falcennial I have, back in 2024, or whatever, as a diversion, to see what it was like. It didn't really interest me that much.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

No AI in my Startpage results.

<https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=the+quick+brown+fox+jumps+over+the+lazy+dog&cat=web>, for example.

@mensrea @falcennial @indigoparadox

[variaxocellus@mastorol.es]

@falcennial Not willingly at least

[gusseting@mastodon.social]

@falcennial where is the "over my dead body" option?

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@Theriac @falcennial I didn't realize they'd moved to Bing... I was just having a minor crisis of "was it my imagination?" but they *do* still seem to be objectively better than DDG insofar as they get results from inside of github while DDG did not seem to... Huh.

[theriac@plasmatrap.com]

@indigoparadox@mastodon.social @falcennial@mastodon.social
They have aggregate results and Bing is one of their sources. The main difference is DDG tends to be more scattershot in its approach - between the two I find startpage faster at finding what I'm looking for

[kkarhan@c.im]

@falcennial voted and shared.

[mattiasb@mastodon.xyz]

@falcennial This might be splitting hairs but I answered "no" because I don't "chat" with an LLM. I write queries like "split an array safely in bash 5.0". For me it's important to not fall for the anthropomorphic user interface and just query the LLM.

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@falcennial

Not sure where "as infrequently as possible" falls. I aim for "Not at all", but sometimes get suckered into it using websites' "Chat with a Live Agent" that turns out to be a bot