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ChatGPT has become my favorite way to search through the web. It redefined the way I engage with the internet: the www is the content, traditional search engines are the shelves & aisles, and the chatbot is the librarian.

It's a shame that so much debate revolves around validating our preconceived fears. So many people are looking for one gotcha to dismiss AI altogether. If you use a default chatbot to draft your meal plans or to answer math questions, you're setting it up for failure. Its strength lies in the ability to map natural language to the data used in its training. In a way, AI is the pinnacle of user interface: it demands nothing more from the user than the ability to speak or write.

I tried to list the reasons as to why I like it so much:

- The relationship between a chatbot and its user is transparent: you know you're dealing with generated content in advance. Many other online services have devolved into a murky territory where you never quite know whether you're dealing with users, bots and/or shills.

- Asking something to the chatbot filters out all ads and sponsored content I might have seen on my way to the answer. Next time you google something, count all the ads you see from the search result page until you reach what you are looking for. It's like walking through the forced-path layout of a mall.

- The response of the chatbot is mostly devoid of images. If you want to be shown something, you need to ask for it. This is very different from the act of browsing, where the average user is ONE typo, ONE click or ONE scroll away from traumatic material.

- No more sidebars, recommended links or elements poking from outside the viewport! As someone with compulsive issues, the lack of clutter is chef's kiss.

I would like to read your thoughts on the matter. Imho in a few years we'll look back at old-school "browsing" and wonder how the heck we managed to find anything useful online. We're living in a Goldilocks time where AI chatbots are amazing search assistants and they have yet to be tarnished by sponsored content. Let's enjoy it while we can.

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> Berulis [...] and his colleagues grew even more alarmed when they noticed nearly two dozen login attempts from a Russian Internet address (83.149.30,186) that presented valid login credentials for a DOGE employee account — one that had been created just minutes earlier. Berulis said those attempts were all blocked thanks to rules in place that prohibit logins from non-U.S. locations.

> “Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy activating,” Berulis wrote. “There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers.”

Somehow each paragraph reveals something even worse than the last.

> Berulis [...] and the associate CIO were informed that “instructions had come down to drop the US-CERT reporting and investigation and we were directed not to move forward or create an official report.” Berulis said it was at this point he decided to go public with his findings.

± Sweden, 1750-80: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past

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Now I keep it to the bare minimum:

1) Favorites bar: up to 10 websites I visit on daily basis.

2) Inspiration folder: where I put things I like. 330 as of today. Website layouts, painters, dev blogs, Youtube videos, anything that has good vibes. That's the only criteria. I make it an effort not to add any subfolder. The only exception is "Favorite projects" which is my little Hall of Fame for quality content. https://ciechanow.ski/ is up there.

3) Trashcan folder: where I place temporary bookmarks I don't care about and will delete in the next few days.

I periodically export my bookmarks so I don't feel guilty when I delete entries from the browser. You could do the same. Put the exported files in a usb stick and forget about them.

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