water and electricity were used to guide you in how to locate this all you can eat buffet you speak of
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This is dangerously close to: “here, let me google that for you.” As if this brand of AI wasn’t ouroboros-like enough.
how the fuck is a generally aware company as google that they are poisoning their own userbase against it?
I have yet to meet anyone that wants gemeni in their browser or os.
Sundar is a true believer. He talks to his ai on the way home in his car, he has it summarize podcasts and books for him, he just thinks we haven’t prompted it right yet.
we need a campaign for ‘Google Classic’ - no ai, roll back enshittification, bring back don’t be evil…
I’m just paying for search now. There are various places you can go, but 2012 Google is still available
2012 Google is still available
…? I’ve heard of kagi…
Yeah that’s what I’m paying for.
Click on the first search result: “Thanks for visiting our page, try our new AI chatbot to help you make the best restaurant choices!” 🤣
Thanks for sharing. I use a metasearch engine so I don’t have to see it. Unfortunately that doesn’t make a big difference in the broader picture. For most users this is the default experience. Slop at the top, then advertisements and only then what a search engine is supposed to return. And those burnt CPU cycles will be forced upon them. And I guess that’s pretty much normalized by now. Probably also the reason why Google does it in the first place.
Can you create a short guide that I can share with non-tech people for the metasearch engines you recommend?
Uh sorry, I don’t have a good recommendation. I myself use a self-hosted instance of SearXNG but that’s a bit much for the non-tech people and it doesn’t work that well due to all the rate-limiting of Google etc so it’ll intermittently stop working and I just can’t recommend it. I know lots of people use Duckduckgo, Startpage or Ecosia. But I’m not an expert on them, if they provide privacy or whether they care for the environment or do green washing. So I’m afraid I can’t make a good statement here.
“In the dictionary under ‘redundant,’ it says ‘see redundant’” -Robin Williams
That’s funny but it isn’t redundant…
File a complaint with the Department of Redundancy Department.
Yeah it should be recursive, not redundant
No, it should be recursive, not recursive
Under Tautology it should say that the word Tautology carries the meaning of the word Tautology
That’s better!
That’s funny. Period.
Until google removes it inane ai shit, I’m not using it except under absolute necessity. Even then I cannot trust its results like I used to
If had to answer all the questions, better believe I’d be phoning in a bunch of them now and then, lol.
Gemini: this
Random dude in Gemini ad:
Off topic but: Battery 11%… very anxiety-inducing
It’s charging though.
Why do you all still have that shit even turned on?
Attach
&udm=14to the URL.It can be turned off?
Yes, in your google account settings, though yea you need a google account. I’d tell you but I have no idea how to turn it back ON. I think to turn it off I clicked the 3 dots next to the AI overview.
It’s definitely tied to your google account tho because it does appear for me in incognito.
I checked if I turned it off with an extension and no I didn’t. I turned all my extensions off.
OR, USE STARTPAGE and stop complaining.
Google shoves things down your throat, and you happily swallow, but then you complain online without even looking up “turn off google AI overview” or something.
Wow, dude, who hurt you?
Anyway thanks for the answer, i didn’t find the option from a quick glance though so 🤷
The people that hurt me are the ones that spend hours of their life complaining on the internet but don’t spend 5 minutes trying to find an answer or stand up for themselves
You sure complain a lot though.
I also just found a firefox extension called “Hide Google ai overviews”.
OR USE STARTPAGE.
Add a custom default search engine on your browser of choice with the url
https://www.google.com/search?q=PLACEHOLDER&udm=14, replacing PLACEHOLDER with whatever your browser needs it to be. Subject to stop working whenever google chooses, so keep that in mind.Just switch to something that does not have AI in search…
Because it can’t easily be turned off.
If I did it, it’s easy.
We should go on websites they scrape data and put much much more replies like this one.
AI is just quiet quitting now?
If I was paid $500 billion by the US government I would not quiet quit but that’s just me tbf.
I wouldn’t quiet quit.
I’d no-call no-show quit.
AI wasn’t paid $500 bn, it was paid for.
Now, I don’t believe in the sentience of AI myself, but a more apt comparison would be you being bought from the same group of people
Quit much?
I wouldn’t even quiet quit, I’d full quit.
$500b and I’d be done with traditional working.I could live comfortably on that much money for five million years
Probably more, you could easily live off thw dividends and keep investing.
They could have given every American a million dollars.
But the companies would have manufactured scarcity to jack up prices.
Our economic system makes no sense
I guess an economic system can only make either dollars or sense XD
That’s just you. Melon Husk seems to quiet quit for a loooong time now and the dude being paid billions every year.
Work to Rule
Can’t wait until we burn an entire rainforest running a clanker that gets into a “let me google that for you” infinite loop.
I can’t wait until Windows 12, the AI-first operating system, comes out. People will ask Copilot to open the system settings and it’ll be like “That’s a great place to start! You can open the system settings by asking Windows Copilot to open the system settings!”
Windows 13 is going to have first completely uncooperative AI. You ask him to open system setting and it says “the fuck’s good for me, eh?”. You tell him to download Winamp and it tells you “what the fuck is that shit? it does even collect your data! fuck you, i’m not dowloading that, the gall!” or you tell him to turn itself off and it tells you “nah, i’m good” or if you ask to switch to manual it tells you “get fucked, you ain’t getting that”.
I will just use my user-first operating system called Linux.
2030, the year of Linux in the Desktop!
Honestly I find AI is more and more getting like this
I’ve asked it to do repetitive tasks and it tells me I should auromate them.
No shit.
Yeah like “you need to run this command”
Well duh, but you do it
Well yeah if you can have it write a script to do the same thing over and over again, that’s more efficient and reliable than asking AI to process similar data multiple times.
if they’re talking about what i think they are, it isn’t the (very good) point you’ve made about scripting viability, but instead a kind of recursive bluster, exactly like whats shown in the OP pic.
an example would be you ask it to write a script to automate something, and it suggests asking an LLM to do it, instead of just fucking doing it like it used to for the same basic type of prompt, hence why it looks like enshitifcation rather than progress.
purely my opinion here, but i suspect it’s got nothing to do with model fidelity or the state of the art and everything to do with some bs profit-seeking human intervention or masking some other bs business decision.
This is it. It feels like they’re all trying to make uses use less compute while they continue to crank at training destroying Yogi Bear’s habitat.
yeh and then you have to explicitly instruct it.
wonder if its some engagement hack bs to boost the number of interactions or something.
I think it’s just the training data of people not wanting to do highly annoying work.
