Comment by junon
1 day ago
On the flip side, I wanted to see what common 8 layer PCB stackups were yesterday. ChatGPT wasn't giving me an answer that really made sense. After googling a bit, I realized almost all of the top results were AI generated, and also had very little in the way of real experience or advice.
It was extremely frustrating.
This is my big fear. We’re going to end up in a world where information that isn’t common is significantly more difficult to find than it is today.
It's going to be like the pre-internet dark ages, but worse. Back then you only didn't find the information. Now, you find unlimited information, but it is all wrong.
Content from before the AI Cambrian explosion is going to be treated like low-background steel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
I don't know, this sounds a lot like in the late 90s when we heard a lot about how anyone could put information on the internet and that you shouldn't trust what you read online.
Well it turns out you can manage just fine.
You shouldn't blindly trust anything. Not what you read, not what people say.
Using LLMs effectively is a skill too, and that does involve deciding when and how to verify information.
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The solution is kagi.com imo.
Before AI generated results, the first page of Google was SEO-optimised crap blogs. The internet has been hard to search for a while.
It will dawn on non-tech people soon enough. Hopefully the "AI" (LLM) hypetrain riders will follow.