Since I was a teenager I’ve been somewhat interested in dream interpretations. So, now and then I google a strong dream I’ve had. Our dreams are subconscious messages from ourselves to ourselves is what I believe. And there can be insights to learn from them. Dreams are great teachers.
By putting together different sources and interpretations from psychologists, religious interpreters and spiritual sharers I kind of get my own interpretation. A way to understand what my dream wants to tell me to guide me the next few days.
Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it’s like reading a horoscope. I don’t take it too seriously but a lot of times I get useful guidance.
A few days ago I googled again. And all my favorite sources for reading about dreams were gone from the search result. Not even on page 2, 3 or 4.
Instead I got thousands of “AI” generated dream sites. I started to read one or two of them, and after a couple of sentences I understood that it’s “AI” text. It starts to repeat itself, a lot. It adds some “encouraging” sentences like “This awesome insight will guide your inner life to experience fantastic things..”. Yawn.
Desperately I tried to remember the name of the sites I used to read so I could find them again. I want to read people’s interpretations. I want to read their stories, their students’ or patients’ experiences and reflections, but it seemed not possible this day to use Google to find these human created sites.
Do I need to go back to the library now? To get books again? At least I need to search in a different way than I used to.
The reason I react is not so much because of the lack of dream sites
to read. I do have some books at home. But, I worry about how to use
Google or similar search engines ahead. When I want to Google about
Golf, Philosophy, History, Math, cooking or something else. Will I only
get these bla bla “AI ’’ jibber-jabbering with ugly”AI” generated
pictures now? Will Google search, as a kind of reliable way to find a
lot of things, now be history?
LLM’s or “AI’s” are great tools for a lot of things. I use them too, to
support my work. But now it has started to swarm the Internet, break
Google searches and hide the real content. The human created sources are
drowned behind thousands of useless auto-generated sites. Like thousands
of homeless bee swarms taking over the Internet.
I assume that the reason “AI” pages are on top of search results is because they are much better than humans in generating the right content for SEO (search engine optimization) and referring links (page rank).
I believe there is now room for an alternative search engine that can provide human (mostly) generated sources. Where you can choose to get automated sites or not. Maybe that’s a place where machine learning and LLM’s can be of use to sort and organize.
Also I wouldn’t be surprised if the market of “link portals” will come back, updated and curated by humans. In a modernized format.
For instance I’d love to use such a dream link site. Where I, and others interested in dream interpretations, get pointers to reading, written by people.
Including somewhat cheesy but light and beautiful pictures, drawn or photographed by humans.
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Ulrika Vincent 
Ulrika has a background as a product leader & analyst, agile mentor, change leader, software developer and other roles in digital development. Currently growing skills in data analytics and statistics. She’s been responsible for data and BI platforms, api software, several popular mobile apps and web sites.
She has a passion for problem solving, understanding the users real needs and work with quality. She encourages self directing and cross functional work, tests, open data and learning.
The last 5 years or so she’s been pretty active in the public transport domain and mobility. Also a background in media, retail & e-commerce.
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