Fuck AI with "Fuck"

a year ago by AbnormalHumanBeing to c/fuck_ai

A magical word.

haverholm 100 points a year ago

I'm more surprised that people still use Google search at all after the years of enshittification — first the SEO crap, then "personalized search" bubbles, and finally the "AI" idiocy. Even shouting questions down a wishing well seems more productive at this point.

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leisesprecher 110 points a year ago

Not to sound confrontational, but you're way too focused on your - likely rather advanced - usage.

90% of people search for very simple stuff. They want to know the weather or want to know about that new movie they don't quite remember the name of. And for that use case, Google is perfectly serviceable. And since people are used to it, for example by it being the default on most platforms, they use it.

A lot of market leaders are objectively a bad choice, but they're a known brand. Coca cola, McDonald's, Oracle, etc.

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haverholm 28 points a year ago

I don't think you sound confrontational, but neither do I consider my internet searching particularly advanced. A lot of my searches are exactly what you describe, and a lot is trying to find a good research rabbit hole to go down. Call me curious.

I'm just sceptical, primarily of Google Search's inroads into surveillance monetisation and effective monopoly. For the same reasons I am as critical of the other "market leaders" you mention; I don't consider the ability to inspire brand loyalty in millions of consumers to sell crap products a quality 🤷

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kemsat 17 points a year ago

I would honestly consider anyone that uses Lemmy or the Fediverse to be more advanced than the average user.

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Lv_InSaNe_vL -15 points a year ago

google is perfectly serviceable

I would go even one step further. For dumb little things like a movie or song you can't remember, or a factoid to win an argument amongst friends the AI summaries are really helpful.

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fishos 15 points a year ago

Yeah no. Just had someone IRL try to use the AI summary to prove something that was blatantly false.

Even more fitting: factoid means something believed to be true, but is false. It's not a "cute little tidbit of info" like you used it as.

So yeah, AI summaries are full of factoids, you are correct.

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Ulrich 4 points a year ago

or a factoid to win an argument amongst friends the AI summaries are really helpful.

People have tried to use these against me already. It's not helpful because all they get is a mouthful of how shitty and chronically incorrect AI summaries are.

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