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Replace journalism with AI summaries... of what? What is the AI going to summarize once journalism is dead?
Press releases, which is what too much of what we call ‘journalism’ summarises anyway.
DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
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Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#82You have to ask: Why is Google pushing the AI results? You would think that this would impact their ad revenue. Since Google is fundamentally an ad company, this deserves a closer look. My suspicion - for which I have no proof - is this: With search results, Google marks the ads. The marking has gotten ever more subtle over the years, but it's there. If you want to avoid clicking on ads, you can. With AI, Google want…
The simple answer is due to popular demand. I remember when people were doom-posting about how chat GPT was making google obsolete before Google introduced AI summaries, and no one has been saying that after Google introduced it.
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Edit: I know how to turn off the goddamn AI that’s not the point
I've used DDG as my primary search and it was maddening when they put that stupid AI response thing in there last year because it was not helpful and I'm a huge advocate of AI
Everything is marketing now
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You're doing these in the wrong order.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that a lot of those overly enthusiastic engineer AI fanboys are just playing a rational game driven by their perception that AI is a effective substitute for them, and that the only way to survive the comming culling is by being seen on the market as something an AI thought leader. Basically, signalling that they are going to be cooperative subjects for the enemy's occupation of the land. "I, for one, welcome…
I like how everyone on HN feels entitled to a profession that hasn't even existed for 100 years and that is constantly changing. Talk about addiction.
People need to be independently rich, or be extremelly frugal to not care about the hypothetical obsolescence of their jobs.
What the fuck do you expect? That people just cheer a brave new world of diminishing salaries and disappearing jobs along with some vague promises that every thing will be alright?
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#86To be honest, I didn't find DuckDuckGo's AI on the top of their search to be very good anyway compared to the one Google has. However can't say I have cared much as typically if I am searching I don't want an AI response, otherwise I'd just go straight to an AI chat interface in the first place.
Biggest problem is that google has a near exclusive deal with reddit, so all other search engines have old reddit results [1].
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like how everyone on HN feels entitled to a profession that hasn't even existed for 100 years and that is constantly changing. Talk about addiction.
People need to be independently rich, or be extremelly frugal to not care about the hypothetical obsolescence of their jobs. What the fuck do you expect? That people just cheer a brave new world of diminishing salaries and disappearing jobs along with some vague promises that every thing will be alright?
Yes, I absolutely do expect computer programmers to cheer as the brave new world they helped create is ushered in.
How many people here got rich by automating away the jobs of others? I mean, what is this? Others are fair game, but programming is sacred? That's quite simply the peak of absurdity.
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#88Ironic to me as the only DDG thing I use anymore is their duck.ai service
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Hey, don't forget about all the programmers who are excited to help destroy their own livelihoods for no extra compensation.
Pretty wild to see this in a technology forum . The whole idea of technology is to do more with less. It inherently reduces the set of people who are still economically valuable. Have you ever wondered how many livelihoods computer programmers have destroyed? Now that programming itself is on the chopping block, suddenly some moral line has been crossed?
> The whole idea of technology is to do more with less. It inherently reduces the set of people who are still economically valuable
I don't think either of these sentences is true.
> Now that programming itself is on the chopping block, suddenly some moral line has been crossed?
I didn't say anything about a moral line, I just said that there are a lot of programmers who are very excited to remove themselves from being employable. I didn't even say whether I thought that was good or bad!
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Theres a difference between users seeking out AI, and PMs cramming AI into previously existing products.
i obviously agree that those are two different things. but its also obviously not true that "AI is only popular with AI providers and delusional C-suites.
That’s pretty much it. I have ai in my tracker, ai in my search engine, ai in my team chat, ai in the os (work computer),… I’ve never asked for it, but I bet I’m being counted as one of those users.