Anyone else experience this?
You run into a niche or weird issue. So you google “how to x”, “y not working on z” or “Error code: 123”; The 1st, 2nd, 3rd page are infected, probably 90% AI slop. Don’t have any luck even with the one blog post that was probably written by a human.
Now I have to go to YouTube. Look for a tutorial, 1st, 2nd, 3rd video all AI. AI voice, AI avatar, bot comments like “😍😍😍”.
Finally I reach a real video from a year or two ago that actually solved my issue. Took 4 hours when normally I could find it in 1 hour tops.
In terms of videos, this is a common experience…AI Voice, Slop Images, it’s all pretty gross to me. Often, I don’t bother with video tutorials because they are too slow (I can read faster than they can speak). However, written guides tend to be less sloptastic. I suppose Linux tutorials in written form aren’t being turned to slop as fast; I can often find what I’m looking for within a few searches by changing criteria and time ranges.