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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by munk-a »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

With the amounts being invested into AI and even just in recognition of running an AI service (@see how openAI loses money on their $200 subscriber accounts). The "for funsies" services like switching an HTML form over to a chatbot are clearly not going to be a realistic resolution for this technology. I'd argue that even when it comes to code generation the tools can be useful for green-field prototyping but the idea that a developer will need to verify the output of a model will never cause more than marginal economy of tools in that sector.

The outcome that the large companies are banking on is replacing workers, even employees with rather modest compensation end up costing a significant amount if you consider overhead and training. There is (mostly) no AI feature that wall street or investors care about except replacing labor - everything else just seems to exist as a form of marketing.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by timoth3y »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

> At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast amounts of employees out of work

That's certainly part of it.

However, at this point I think a lot of it is a kind of emotional sunk-cost. To stop now would require a lot of very wealthy and powerful people to admit they had personally made a very serious mistake.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by greenavocado »

talldayo wrote: post #128
greenavocado wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The end goal is a global panopticon followed by a culling of the herd. Read the inscriptions: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeo...

Sometimes I worry that the internet has enabled ordinary but gullible people to find exactly the supporting evidence they need to be considered insane by society.

The Freemasons which rule over you in the form of police and courts and the legislative branch built the Georgia Guidestones

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by joshuaissac »

nixonpjoshua wrote: post #118
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #60

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The quoted words search barely works these days anyway.

I haven't had quotations work for me in search in years now, it's really sad how boolean operators have stopped working too. I find it particularly difficult to search for "non latex" products as adding quotes on the total term no longer works and I just get products full of latex. Also I can't use boolean search to find the product because it just ignores the "-" in front of the word and gives a ton of results that…

You can put Google Search into Verbatim mode (via Search tools) to make it respect quotation marks.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by dbcjv7vhxj »

basscomm wrote: post #113
autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

> At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast amounts of employees out of work It's this part. Salaries and benefits are expensive. A computer program doesn't need a salary, retirement benefits, insurance, retirement, doesn't call in sick, doesn't take vacations, works 24/7, etc.

No it's not. It's because management is tone deaf and out of touch. They'll latch onto literally anything put in front of them as a way out of their inability to iterate and innovate on their products.

Throwing "ai" into it is a simple addition, if it works, great, if it doesn't well the market just wasn't ready.

But if they have to actually talk to their users and solve their real problems that's a really hard pill to swallow, extremely hard to solve correctly, and basically impossible to sell to shareholders because you likely have to explain that your last 50 ideas and the tech debt they created are the problem that needs to be excised.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by hinkley »

dylan604 wrote: post #97
belter wrote: post #76

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Well at least you will get great travel suggestions to Austria.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

What about the Pho King restaurants?

Don’t forget Sofa King.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by rplnt »

cynicalsecurity wrote: post #104
edflsafoiewq wrote: post #56

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It's not like it doesn't freely ignore any unquoted word whenever it feels like it.

Google often ignores regular words too, mockingly striking them out. This almost feels like a 1st April joke, not how a search engine is supposed to work.

Google stopped being usable to search web many years ago. It can search stuff, sure, but not content on websites.
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