The AI blogspam in search results is out of control.

Today I wondered, "what time of day should you transplant plants?" The first hit on DuckDuckGo was reasonable-looking, until it suddenly switched to talking about how to recover from an organ transplant. No human writer would make this mistake. Now I don't know if anything I read before that was accurate, or even reviewed by a human before publishing.

Once upon a time the first hit would have been some passionate gardening nerd.

@skyfaller yeah, I basically can't get info on care for any moderately obscure succulents, because there are a thousand nonsense sites aggregating and blenderizing info from other places, full of self-contraditions and word salad. I think we're basically at the tipping point into full Internet Enshittification.