• Beej Jorgensen
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    6 hours ago

    Another example of how a human could have delivered the same information in 25% the time.

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      6 hours ago

      The LLMs have been trained on articles written by humans, who, in turn, have been trained to draw out their conclusion into several pages in order to fit advertisements between the paragraphs and pages. It was infuriating before LLMs, and it’s equally infuriating now.

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        4 hours ago

        One reason I like Kagi is that it downranks ad-heavy pages. And of course I like uBO. But there are still so many web users without ad blockers that I makes sense for sites to spew slop, just like you’re saying. Blows my mind that anyone would use the web without a blocker.

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          Before LLMs were a thing, I would just out of sheer muscle memory skip the first few paragraphs of an article to get to the point of what the headline was about, because every fucking article starts with the big bang and works its way to the content of the headline.