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LeftInTX

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12. I was looking for an answer to something regarding hair dye.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:58 AM
Sep 2025

Google AI spewed out reddit comments. They weren't factual, because that's where I had been looking for answers. Some were just comments, some were just questions. In the end, there was no "answer".

Google AI just grabs info and spews it out.

Sometimes, it is useful because one time I was wondering how someone had acquired ancient Mexican pottery. AI crawled the internet and found an answer. Google AI has the ability to "crawl the net" faster than we can. In the hair dye case, I guess Reddit was the only active source of info.

Most of the time Google AI is not accurate. It doesn't have the ability to discern. It just finds, "whatever". It's a bot. z

And the AI bot on Reddit: "I see that you are looking for hair dye. Manic Panic is popular"....Reddit's AI bot sees the word "Hair dye" and automatically spills out Manic Panic. Yes, lots of people on Reddit use Manic Panic, but that's not what I was looking for. I'm trying to get rid of grey and I'm dying my hair at home and want it took look natural. It's a long story.

I've used ChatGPT a few times to tweak grammar.

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