Reid characterized the mistakes that won attention as the result of an internet-wide audit that wasn’t always well intended.
Oh yeah, there was a conspiracy to embarrass Google with off-the-wall questions like “how do I thicken pizza sauce?”
Why are these corporate schmucks unable to take any blame?
No audit is well intended. The whole ppint of an audit is to find duplicitous and fucked up shit.
Why are these corporate schmucks unable to take any blame?
Because they never have to.
Sadly, b/c their jobs literally depend on them NOT doing so, in today’s corporate hellscape environ:-(.
If Chromebooks are anything to go by, if google had their way you’d only be allowed to search prescreened questions they think are best for you. Can’t have you experiencing anything not advertiser friendly.
making the feature rely less heavily on user-generated content from sites like Reddit
Imagine selling out reddit/buying access to the comments for AI just to immediately unprioritise it
No one could have seen this coming. Obviously LLMs absolutely completely understand the difference between people joking around with each other and authentic advice.
Sarcasm aside, Reddit does have some good information about niche topics. There’s just currently no way for AI to understand the difference between dry humor and serious responses. I think the AI summaries are unhelpful anyway, but even if I didn’t it’s pretty obvious Google didn’t think further than “Shove AI into it like a drunken prom night encounter”.
There’s just currently no way for AI to understand the difference between dry humor and serious responses.
There’s no way for humans to do this either. We invented an entirely new series of markers (emoticons, /s, etc.) at a vain attempt at doing just this and still fail.
It’s definitely difficult over text unless you know someone.
The AI bullcrap at the top, before actual search results, is what finally made me change my default engine to duckduckgo
Ok good. Now remove that feature or at least add mandatory human review
Everyone remember to pollute your answers wherever you post them at least once a day.
The best way to avoid having your words used by an LLM is to mash your fingers with a mallet before typing. The resulting typographical errors will ensure that the AI rejects your text before using it for training.
So… a nurmal Redhti usre then? :-P
Am I the only one who doesn’t have access to this? I’m in canada but using a VPN doesn’t seem to change anything. Not that I care about AI, but I’d like to see the shitshow myself.
We need decentralized, federated search. I remember YaCy from years ago was attempting this. Anybody know if there’s anybody actively working on this?
Thanks to screw-ups like these, I was on the hunt for a better search engine. I may have found one in kagi.com. Anyone else willing to pay to get rid of tracking, check it out!
