Reid characterized the mistakes that won attention as the result of an internet-wide audit that wasn’t always well intended.
Oh yeah, there was a conspiracy to embarrass Google with off-the-wall questions like “how do I thicken pizza sauce?”
Why are these corporate schmucks unable to take any blame?
No audit is well intended. The whole ppint of an audit is to find duplicitous and fucked up shit.
Why are these corporate schmucks unable to take any blame?
Because they never have to.
If Chromebooks are anything to go by, if google had their way you’d only be allowed to search prescreened questions they think are best for you. Can’t have you experiencing anything not advertiser friendly.
What? Oh no, I had not written down the recipe for using gasoline to cook my spaghetti! Whatever shall I do?
The company made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to AI Overviews …
… making the feature rely less heavily on user-generated content from sites like Reddit
So it prefers the results that Google normally deprioritizes? I guess we have that in common
The AI bullcrap at the top, before actual search results, is what finally made me change my default engine to duckduckgo
Same, I have tried DDG every once in a while but kept going back to google. Now google search doesn’t quite give me relevant results anymore and all the AI crap just takes all of their effort to work on search itself.
Been using DDG for a few weeks now for personal and work related stuff - quite happy with it.
I’ve fully committed to kagi now and don’t regret it. The results are actually helpful again and even their AI features are better. The search summary does not seem to hallucinate at all
Ok good. Now remove that feature or at least add mandatory human review
Everyone remember to pollute your answers wherever you post them at least once a day.
The best way to avoid having your words used by an LLM is to mash your fingers with a mallet before typing. The resulting typographical errors will ensure that the AI rejects your text before using it for training.
Well, cool. Now fix it.
You don’t say.
We need decentralized, federated search. I remember YaCy from years ago was attempting this. Anybody know if there’s anybody actively working on this?
Am I the only one who doesn’t have access to this? I’m in canada but using a VPN doesn’t seem to change anything. Not that I care about AI, but I’d like to see the shitshow myself.
I looked something up today.
Do plumbers fit shower screens? Plumbers do not usually fit frameless shower screens. Most of the time, they break the glass panels and hurt themselves. Others do not try going through the installation hassle.
The whole thing is embarrassing. The only way it could be worse could be if they harvested 4chan
