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Stop using generative AI as a search engine(www.theverge.com)

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lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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Eh…I got it to find a product that met the specs I was looking for on Amazon when no other search worked. It’s certainly a last resort but it worked. Idk why whenever I’m looking to buy anything lately somehow the only criteria I care about are never documented properly…

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Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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It’s useful to point you in the right direction, but anything beyond that necessitates more research

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lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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I mean, it gave me exactly what I asked for. The only further research was to actually read the item description to verify that but I could have blindly accepted it and received what I was looking for.

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ranting_sandfish@mander.xyz
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Out of curiosity, did it find a source for those specs that wasn’t indexed well elsewhere?

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Yea. It was reading the contents of the item description I think. In this instance I was looking for an item with specific dimensions and just searching those didn’t work because Amazon sellers are ass at naming shit and it returned a load of crap. but when I put them in their AI thing it pulled several matches right away.

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