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

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Post by Retric »

DavidPiper wrote: post #220
autoexec wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s the same way that some people really want open source bootloaders, but 99.99% of people do not care at all. In fairness to the 99.99% they don't even know what a bootloader is and if they understood the situation and the risks many of them would also favor an open option. I don't think the rejection of AI is primarily a HN thing though. It's my non-tech friends and family who have been most vocal in complainin…

> In fairness to the 99.99% they don't even know what a bootloader is True. And awareness and education is very important for useful discourse. > if they understood the situation and the risks many of them would also favor an open option. Raising my hand as one of those people who knows what a bootloader is and also doesn't currently care about an open option. Maybe at some time in the future I will again, but for no…

> one of the most effective things you can do if you direct it in the “right” avenues

The people I know who “worry” are terrible about predicting negative events that impact them. I think that’s why it’s uncommon, lots of negative health outcomes and almost zero actual benefits.

Instead simply aiming for reasonable levels of resiliency in health, finances, etc tends to cover a huge range of issues. In that context having a preference for open systems makes a lot of sense, but focusing a lot of effort on it doesn’t.

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

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Post by alex1138 »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #60
edflsafoiewq wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The quoted words search barely works these days anyway.

It's not hard to make a search engine that respects '+'

Unless your new upstart social service is called SearchEngine+ so you remove it

(Except duckduckgo also seems to semi-ignore it. I'm baffled. I give up. I'm throwing my computer out the window, and moving to the woods)

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

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Post by toss1 »

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…

Yet, some analysts claim the fact that people nevertheless use these awful choices means they like them despite their frequent complaints.

They cite "Revealed Choice", which may apply when there is an actual choice.

But in the nearly winner-take-all dynamic of digital services, when the few oligopolistic market leaders present nearly identical choices, the actual usage pattern reveals only that a few bad choices are just barely worse than chucking the whole thing.

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

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

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…

Correction: That some subset of the people you mostly meet online tries to get rid off.

You'd be surprised how many don't even realize it's artificial, and/or welcome it. The average Google user is most certainly not similar to the average Hacker News commenter.

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

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Post by Modified3019 »

segasaturn wrote: post #119
pjc50 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There used to be a Fucking, Austria until they decided to self censor for the pesky English speakers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

The rebranding is funny since people on TikTok also use "fugging" to evade censorship.

For me it’s associated with the Finnish spurdo meme.

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

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Post by cheese_van »

IgorPartola wrote: post #171
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…

I am totally in the same boat but also I do suspect it is a minority. It’s the same way that some people really want open source bootloaders, but 99.99% of people do not care at all. Maybe AI assistants in random places just aren’t that compatible with people on HN but are possibly useful for a lot of people not on HN?

Coincidentally today, I received an automated text from my heath care entity along the lines of, "Please recognize this number as from us. Our AI will be calling you to discuss your heath."

No. I'm not going to have a personal discussion with an AI.

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Post by balder1991 »

Eisenstein wrote: post #244
basscomm wrote: post #113

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> 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.

Who do they think will buy their products if there are no employees anywhere? Businesses, even business facing ones, eventually rely on consumers at some point to buy things. What can be gained by putting everyone out of work?

I remain skeptical of the prediction that AI will simply “take over jobs”. If AI becomes advanced enough to perform tasks traditionally done by skilled professionals, it would instead democratize access to capabilities that are currently gatekept by wealth and resources (since right now you can’t have human employees, but you’d be able to have AI workers for cheap).

In this scenario, individuals without substantial capital could leverage AI to achieve outcomes that today require the resources and influence of wealthy founders. It might do the opposite of what CEOs seem to think: challenge existing power structures and create a more level playing field.

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

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Post by KennyBlanken »

IgorPartola wrote: post #171
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…

I am totally in the same boat but also I do suspect it is a minority. It’s the same way that some people really want open source bootloaders, but 99.99% of people do not care at all. Maybe AI assistants in random places just aren’t that compatible with people on HN but are possibly useful for a lot of people not on HN?

It's not even remotely a minority. It was widely mocked everywhere when they first debuted it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1czcjze/how_is_ai_o...

Mainstream press have been covering how much people hate it - people's grandparents are getting annoyed by it. Worse, it comes on the heels of four years of Prabhakar Raghavan ruining Google Search for the sake of trying to pump ad revenue.

It's a steaming pile of dogshit that either provides useless information unrelated to what you searched for and is just another thing to scroll past, and even worse, provides completely wrong information half the time, which means even if the response seems to be what you asked, it's still useless because you can't trust it.

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