You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
Dana Scully, a fictional character in The X-Files played by Gillian Anderson, inspired many young women to pursue careers in science, medicine, engineering, and law enforcement. As a result, she caused increase in the number of women entering these fields. This phenomenon is known as "The Scully Effect."
Garbage in, garbage out – even Agentic AI can’t save you from yourself.
Artificial intelligence is only as brilliant as the data it’s spoon-fed – and spoiler alert: your data is often trash.
Whether it’s traditional machine learning, generative models, or your shiny new agentic systems, the pattern remains insultingly consistent:
• Bad data? Expect bad decisions.
• Incomplete data? Enjoy half-baked ideas.
• Outdated data? Say hello to irrelevant nonsense.
I often talk about what AI can or tragically still can’t do.
But here’s the real twist: the problem isn’t the system. It’s you. Or more specifically, the glorious mess you call your “data foundation.”
You don’t have a lack of innovation.
You have a lack of clean data structures, maintained knowledge bases, and basic contextual awareness.
And then you expect the AI to magically fill gaps that should never have existed in the first place.
#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DataScience #DataQuality #DataManagement #BigData #coding #Programming
Hey, I am working on some printer vulnerabilities and I would like to tell everyone that printers suck just as bad in 2025 as they did in 1995.
On a related note:
The goal of the companies who run AIs is to
1. get us all to use AI until the point where
2. we're dependent on AI, then
3. remove all access to AI and
4. grant the privilege of use only to those who pay a monthly fee,
5. which will periodically rise
6. while the service becomes worse and worse.
It'll be enshittification of enshittification.
enshittiception
Ross of Ottawa
Lex Feathers 🍂
Electronic Frontier Foundation
nixCraft 🐧
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Bruno Guglielminetti
Yuna
LeeRayl
Court Cantrell does not comply