For most use cases, web search engines are fine. But I am wondering if there are alternative ways to finding information. There is also the enshittification of google and tbh most(free) search engines just give google search result
Obviously, the straight answer is just asking other people, in person or online, in general forums or specialised communities
Libraries are good source too but for those of is that don’t have access to physical libraries, there free online public libraries(I will post the links for those that I found below)
Books in general, a lot of them have reference to outside materials.
So, I been experimenting with an AI chat bot(Le chat), partially as life coach of sorts and partially as a fine tuned web search engine. To cut to the chase, its bad. when its not just listing google top results it list tools that are long gone or just makes shit up. I was hoping it to be a fine tuned search engine, cuz with google, if what you want is not in the top 10 websites, your on your own.
So yeah, that all I can think of. Those are all the routes I can think of for finding information and probably all there is but maybe I missed some other routes.
Careful with the whole chatbot-lifecoach thing. People are developing psychosis from being that personal with those things. Don’t let it give you affirmations
LLMs are designed to agree to whatever to say (for the most part) so you could be dead ass wrong and it’ll be like, “you’re absolutely right!”
Which is bad. But you should see some of the shit chatgpt said to Stein-Erik Soelberg. That shit went way beyond just yes-anding misinformation. Dude got straight up groomed
Which is why (for certain things) after it’s provided an answer, I push back and argue a counterpoint, to see what it comes up with.