Wayne Myers
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)I do not use AI at all, at any stage of writing my books. I have the &udm=14 code in my search engine so I don't even use it for research.
CriticalBackend@golgaloth what does that code do? I'm not super familiar with those things so I'd love to know, also amazing game director, I've been wanting demonschool for a while and that might just be the reason I buy it.
@criticalbackend It removes AI from search results - there are a few bits on the internet telling you how to implement it in your search engine.
@golgaloth thanks for the info, thought it might be something like that. Might have to look into it.
J$@golgaloth &udm=14 means… you’re still putting yourself under Google surveillance, and still let Google manipulate you. It hints Google not to produce slop confabulations (good), but it won’t stop Google from producing “search results” that are pages produced by a slop engine.
You probably know this, and I know, preaching to the choir. Yet still, some may not be aware that a web used to exist outside of Google, Meta etc., and that some viable remnant of that still exists.
Jeff GriggAlso, there are other search engines.
Like
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
.
(But, as you mentioned, people are filling the internet with Generative AI slop. There's no easy way to avoid that problem.)
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Jules 🍺@golgaloth don't use it at all in my software development or search engine usage either
frank mutsaers 🍋 🟥
Thank you for the helpful link!
(See "Brandon Sheffield (Creative Director, Necrosoft Games)" quote in it.)
silverwizard@golgaloth I just spent like 10 minutes trying to find this source, but I can't, but I want to share context with some people. I only find Necrosoft saying they would rather cut off their own arms than use AI so I think the results are filled with the older stuff, so asking.
maco@maco @golgaloth Thanks!
haihappen@golgaloth ... I need to look at Necrosoft Games' games. If any of thwm spark my fancy, they deserve my business based on that attitude alone.
Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)@golgaloth I beg of you, please check out https://stopgenai.com