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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12723593

Not all ai is bad, just most of it

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Plant ID is soooo disappointing - works sometimes though.

Always gotta run the ID, web search for images of the recommendation, compare images to plant.

Semantic search can be helpful:

Search mockup showing difference between a lexical search of “Daniel Radcliffe” compared to semantic search of “how rich is the actor who played Harry Potter“ which translates to “net worth Daniel Radcliffe“, sourced from seobility.net

Guess OP image could be about e.g. Perplexity repeatedly HAMMERING (no caching?) the beautiful open web and slopping out poor syntheses.