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Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by CobaltFire »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #183
CSMastermind wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really is a werid feeling remembering the internet of my youth and even my 20s and knowing that it will never exist again.

I only just put it together but Peter Watt's Rifters series is some epic earth grimdark hard-sci-fi, the first taking place as practically horror, confined deep under water. But my point is, the latter books have this has amazing post-internet, just a ravaged chaotic Wildlands filled with rabid programs & wild viruses. Packets staggering half intact across the virtualscape, hit by digital storms. Our internet isn't q…

Thanks for the recommendation and free link!

Another book on my reading list!

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by IAmNotACellist »

thiht wrote: post #167
whalesalad wrote: post #95

Drives me nuts. The internet is dead. I just bought a home and I have been googling the best way to tackle certain home improvement projects - like how to prepare trim for painting. Virtually every result is some kind of content farm of AI-generated bullshit with advertising between every paragraph, an autoplay video (completely unrelated) that scrolls with the page, a modal popup asking me to accept cookies, a secon…

For this kind of search, YouTube and TikTok (yes, TikTok) are your best bet. Videos are not (completely) flooded by AI (yet) and you can find pretty much anything about manual work. I prefer text content to videos by a long shot, but genuine, human text content is almost dead. Reddit might be one of the rare exceptions for now. There are also random, still active, old school forums for lots of things but they tend to…

Gaining information from a video (often just someone talking into their phone) feels like sucking a milkshake through a coffee stirrer compared to reading a forum post written by a human. Worse, you can't see how deep that milkshake is at a glance, so you may end up with just a sip from a melted puddle vs. the big volume of content you wanted.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by s1artibartfast »

sekh60 wrote: post #45
Havoc wrote: post #40

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Question is how long till you can’t tell the difference

My FAANG working spouse thinks that AIs and Robocallers should be mandated to identify themselves. She thinks a audible "Beep-boop" at the end of a sentence for calls and video would be appropriate.

Barring that, every human could end sentences with a couple racial slurs to verify that they are not on AI

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by AStonesThrow »

amputect wrote: post #154
sobellian wrote: post #93

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Couldn't reproduce - in fact, the second hit is a threads version of the same post - but I get no AI suggestions for this query. Humorous Google queries (or AI queries more generally) are definitely a trope, so I can never really tell if they actually happened or if it's all for karma.

Google also routinely removes AI suggestions for searches that produce embarrassing results (you don't get them for searches about keeping cheese on your pizza anymore, for example), so it's even harder to validate once a result goes viral.

Look at the bright side: "do a barrel roll" is still a fully-supported Easter egg.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by timetraveller26 »

dakiol wrote: post #46

Wouldn't surprise me if in a few years Google, for certain keywords: - autogenerates URLs (tha look legit) - autogenerates content for such URLs (that look kinda legit) All of this would be possible if one is using Chrome (otherwise the fake URLs wouldn't lead to anywhere). Of course, full of ads. Think about it, some people are not really looking for some web site that talks about "baby peacocks". They are looking f…

at least an ai://baby-peacocks/images would be honest

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

timeon wrote: post #207
jonathanstrange wrote: post #63

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Searching with "Reddit" at the end of every query helps but I suppose it's only a matter of time when most content on Reddit is also AI-generated.

Most of the Reddit content is now[0] fake. [0] Gradually for several years already.

The niche subreddit's I follow seem to be ok. I stay away from the big ones. All the default ones are garbage from what I can see.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by tivert »

pavon wrote: post #176
quasse wrote: post #87

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Kagi is not a panacea unfortunately. I pay for it and daily drive it to support a Google alternative, but I still have real trouble with my results being full of AI garbage (both image and text search). As mentioned, product comparisons are a big one but another worrying area is anything medical related. I was trying to find research about a medicine I'm taking this week and the already SEO infested results of 5 year…

That matches my experience. Kagi doesn't surface much content beyond what Google/Bing do. What it does better out of the box is guessing which content is low-quality and displaying so that it takes up less space, allowing you to see a few more pages worth of search results on the first page. And then it lets you permanently filter out sites you consider to be low quality so you don't see them at all. That would have…

> For content that isn't time sensitive the best trick that I have found is to exclude the last 10-15 years from search results. I've setup a Firefox keyword searches[1] for this, and find myself using them for the majority of my searches...

OMG. I'm so happy how much AI is improving our lives right now. It really is the future, and that future is bright.

Thanks guys!

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Post by arp242 »

FabHK wrote: post #220
bagels wrote: post #163

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How can that ever work in a world filled with people that are eager to lie to you?

digital signatures?

But I can generate something with AI and then sign it myself and say "I wrote it, pinky promise".

Since most people don't write anything on the internet, I can pay people $5 to use their signature and operate a "sign farm".

Look at the effort these people go though to send their spam.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by tivert »

rootusrootus wrote: post #77
CSMastermind wrote: post #57

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It really is a werid feeling remembering the internet of my youth and even my 20s and knowing that it will never exist again.

I'm a little sad for anyone who didn't get to experience the Internet of the twentieth century. It was a unique point in time. I'm ready to pay for a walled garden where the incentives are aligned towards me, instead of against me. I know that puts me in a minority, but I'm tired of the advertising 'net.

> I'm a little sad for anyone who didn't get to experience the Internet of the twentieth century. It was a unique point in time.

Sadly, they won't know what they were missing. It'll be the new normal

Some asshole tech apologist is probably getting ready to post that section from Plato where Socrates complains about writing any minute now.

Of course, that asshole is oblivious to the fact that most if not all of us probably just don't understand what Socrates was missing, so he's just showing his ignorance and stupidity.

> I'm ready to pay for a walled garden where the incentives are aligned towards me, instead of against me. I know that puts me in a minority, but I'm tired of the advertising 'net.

The problem is that, even if you try to do that, the incentives are probably still aligned against you, just maybe less blatantly.

Just look at how many formerly ad-free paid services are adding ads, and how hardware users literally own acts against their interests by pushing ads in their faces (e.g. smart TVs).

The guy who runs the walled garden will always be tempted to get some extra cash by adding ad revenue to your subscription feed, or cut costs by replacing human curated stuff with AI slop (maybe cleaned up a bit).

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