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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 dragonwriter »

huhkerrf wrote: post #298
gosub100 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll repeat my favorite quote about it (paraphrased and read it here first but don't recall the attribution): AI can copy a song, tell me a joke, predict what I buy, but I still have to do my own dishes. If AI (or any tech) could clean, do dishes, or cook (which is not a chore for many, I acknowledge that) it could potentially bring families together and improve the quality of peoples lives. Instead they are introduc…

It's "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." Which is a stupid argument, since there is "any tech" that can do your laundry and dishes, and it's been around for decades! Is it too hard for you to put your dishes in the dishwasher, or your clothes in the washing machine? And I say this as someone bearish on AI…

> Is it too hard for you to put your dishes in the dishwasher, or your clothes in the washing machine?

Is it "too hard"? No. Is it a substantial time sink, and one that (in the case of laundry, particularly) breaks up flow, so that it is inconvenient for someone who has to deal with $DAYJOB and those chores and wants to do art and writing (or other personal projects that take focus)? Yes.

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

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Post by whynotmaybe »

jameslk wrote: post #4

If I start fucking adding swear words to all my fucking search queries, how the fuck will the stupid ass search engine know that I did not want it to use that shit as one of my keywords and give me back a whole lot of fucked up shit?

You just reminded me of this French singer that made an album called "mp3" because he wanted to make it harder to find his album on Napster.

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Post by bee_rider »

dbcjv7vhxj wrote: post #135
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.

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…

It also looks really appealing to do tasks you have a very shallow and dismissive opinion of. For example, a lot of managers and c-level sorts seem to think it will replace developers. I think it would be great at summarizing and passing up reports and generating plausible looking meaningless text—so, it looks like it could do most management type jobs, to me.

But, I must try to have a little bit of self awareness here: if we all think it can do the jobs we don’t understand and don’t think it can do the job we’ve got experience in, then maybe that just indicates that it isn’t really very good at anything yet.

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Post by Nullabillity »

bobxmax wrote: post #165
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…

Billions of dollars are being spent on very useful AI. You just notice the shitty ones, but people on HN thinks that's the norm for some reason.

You might've been… slightly… more convincing if you had any sources to back that absolutely wild claim up.

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Post by gloosx »

bobxmax wrote: post #269
timewizard wrote: post #192

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Is the "useful AI" technology any different from this slop? If not then I fear that's wasted money as well. Which I think is the reason this stuff keeps getting shoehorned in. They invested money in training and equipment all of which is depreciating far faster than it has returned value. I strongly doubt this "dichotomy AI" theory.

That's demonstrably false unless you believe millions of people are spending their own money every month for useless tech. I don't know how a thinking person can use this technology and not see the possibilities it opens up.

>unless you believe millions of people are spending their own money every month for useless tech

that's a hot take! A classic "Eat shit! A million flies can't be wrong.". really made me smile :)

BILLIONS of people are spending their own money for useless tech, simply because they fear of missing out.

Thinking person can see it is generating text from the input query – which is useful of course – but not dramatically useful

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