I work retail, and customer and fellow employee alike have no ability to google fucking anything, and this isn't bound by any age bracket or demographic. Young and old alike, half my job is googling shit for them, I'll do it in front of them in an attempt to be like "see you can do this yourself next time" and it never works. People will call my shop and ask me to google the phone number and directions TO OTHER STORES!

I forced a younger coworker to google a question he asked me yesterday and I swear I heard the fucking 2001 Space Odyssey theme played as he realized you can find information to answers your questions yourself!

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I mean, google itself stole that ability from us. There was a solid, what, ten fucking year stretch where the only way to easily find actual information about something was to google for a relevant Reddit thread. Now it's just HEY HERE'S YOUR AI LLM SLOP OUTPUT (powered by reddit threads)

you used to be able to type in like a half fucking remembered phrase and it'd be like it read your fuckin' mind, immediately brings up the shit you're looking for

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Now you can google how long to boil pasta and the AI will tell you to try adding diesel to it because Reddit says so

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 weeks ago

"A reddit user adds, 'kill yourself.'"

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