• stellargmite@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Why would we believe the promises of the ones who ruined the primary utility of their core product in the first place, and convinced or blackmailed the rest of the internet to take part in the ruination ? An advertising corporation will tell us to put cyanide on our pizza if it makes them an extra buck this quarter, and google is worse than that. Profit despite the social costs is doing no evil /s

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    6 months ago

    The company has taken action against violations of its policies, she said

    What does this mean in this context? Send takedown notices to people who joke on the Internet?

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      6 months ago

      The fucksmith post in question has been removed by moderators, so I wonder if Google really is pressuring Reddit to remove jokes from their platform now. This person had no idea their shit post would be used to train AI over a decade later, and they certainly weren’t violating any policies when they posted it. It’s like nobody involved in this process knew anything about Reddit.

      Pay $60 million to train on bad data.
      Implement AI trained on bad data.
      Panic when the AI returns bad answers.
      Manually remove bad data.
      Profit??

      Edit: it was removed when I checked yesterday, but it looks like they restored it.

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        6 months ago

        Well I guess the main difference would be that Firefox is a web browser not a search engine lmao. Fuck kagi though, CEO/owner is an antisocial lunatic

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    AI is the new scam after crypto, nft, etc. The technology isn’t to blame itself. It can have some useful case for sure.

    The real issue is the Market™, the belief in infinite growth. We arrived at the point of no return, where infinite growth is impossible. Humans like to challenge impossible. They will try to find whatever is possible to tackle the impossible. In our case, humans try to create growth artificially with crypto, nft, ai, and all the others. Because, it’s the only way to have a minimalist growth for the shareholders and investors. Billions if not trillions were invested in Google and the others AI companies to milk the last drop for some dividend. Short term dividends should have wrote.

    These bad search results are not to serve the general interest. It’s here to serve these investments and return the last profit possible of the dogma of infinity in a finite world. It does indicate how bad the situation became for the economy. They are the cracks leaking the end of an era. They are symptomatic.

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      6 months ago

      It sounds… impossible to defeat this darker side of human nature, in order to grow into a mature species worthy of restoring and responsibly maintaining this garden planet.

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        I think most humans aren’t like that, it’s just that the ones that are have managed to structure society to reward their behavior. We need to get these vile, greed driven ghouls, out of positions of power to get anywhere.

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            6 months ago

            Yeah. Like the old adage of whoever seeks power is least deserving of it. It’s a difficult thing to combat.

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              I can’t remember if it was Asimov or Heinlein (maybe Clarke), but one of them said that an elected official should be drug into office kicking and screaming, and only be allowed to leave when they’ve done a good job.

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    6 months ago

    They wouldn’t need to ‘improve’ their search experience if they never enshittified the results page like 10 years ago.

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    6 months ago

    Copilot gives a four step solution then finishes with “glue is not the answer”.