I’ve found that AI has done literally nothing to improve my life in any way and has really just caused endless frustrations. From the enshitification of journalism to ruining pretty much all tech support and customer service, what is the point of this shit?

I work on the Salesforce platform and now I have their dumbass account managers harassing my team to buy into their stupid AI customer service agents. Really, the only AI highlight that I have seen is the guy that made the tool to spam job applications to combat worthless AI job recruiters and HR tools.

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    i switched to kagi a year ago as i usually need to go through search result. i was astonished at just how dogpoop google search is compared to it.

    youtube was even worse, i had to go through 10 unrelated videos to find one slightly relevant one. kagi is usually dont have the latest results but is on point on relevancy.

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      I looked at kagi but I don’t want to pay for it because I’m a cheap bastard.

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        Searx uses different search engines to get the best results. There are many public instances or if you can self host, you can run it privately.

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          yeah i have wanted to try it. will likely do once the kagi subscription is near the renewal.

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        haha, no shame in that, i was myself hesitant but one day just gave in anger after getting just ad infested garbage from google for work related topic

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      youtube was even worse, i had to go through 10 unrelated videos to find one slightly relevant one.

      Last month I typed letter for letter the title of a video I saw on there in YouTube search and it tried so hard to push some other barely related videos, I couldn’t believe it. I ended up typing the url manually like some internet cave man

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        wow, i mean its a free service but the amount of money they make from selling our data they should atleast try to not make us severely hate their product