Tech company creates best search engine —-> world domination —> becomes VC company in tech trench coat —-> destroy search engine to prop up bad investments in
artificial intelligenceadvanced chatbotsYou either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain
Then Hire cheap human intelligence to correct the AIs hallucinatory trash, trained from actual human generated content in the first place which the original intended audience did understand the nuanced context and meaning of in the first place. Wow more like theyve shovelled a bucket of horse manure on the pizza as well as the glue. Added value to the advertisers. AI my arse. I think calling these things language models is being generous. More like energy and data hungry vomitrons.
Calling these things Artificial Intelligence should be a crime. It’s false advertising! Intelligence requires critical thought. They possess zero critical thought. They’re stochastic parrots, whose only skill is mimicking human language, and they can only mimic convincingly when fed billions of examples.
It’s more of a Reddit Collective Intelligence (CI) than an AI.
Collective stupidity more like
It’s like they made a bot out of the subreddit confidently incorrect.
Stealing advanced chat bots, that’s a great way to describe it.
“Many of the examples we’ve seen have been uncommon queries,”
Ah the good old “the problem is with the user not with our code” argument. The sign of a truly successful software maker.
“We don’t understand. Why aren’t people simply searching for Taylor Swift”
I tried, but it always comes up with pictures of airplanes for some reason.
You’re
holdingtyping it wrong!I mean…I guess you could parahrase it that way. I took it more as “Look, you probably aren’t going to run into any weird answers.”. Which seems like a valid thing for them to try to convey.
(That being said, fuck AI, fuck Google, fuck reddit.)
“I’m feeling depressed” is not an uncommon query under capitalism run amok. “One Reddit user recommends jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge” is not just a weird answer, it is a wholly irresponsible one.
So, no, their response is not valid. It is entirely user-blaming in order to avoid culpability.
There are currently a lot of fake screenshots since it quickly became a meme, pretty sure this is one.
Still a fuck up in general on their part.
The fact that it’s hard to tell is pretty damning, for the public perception of SGE if not for its actual capabilities.
Fair enough. I know how easy it is to fake a Google search with inspect element. I’ve been trying to verify for myself how shitty it is, but AI Overviews don’t seem to be showing up for me (I’ve done all the correct steps to enable it, but no searches generate results).
I remember seeing a comment on here that said something along the lines of “for every dangerous or wrong response that goes public there’s probably 5, 10 or even 100 of those responses that only one person saw and may have treated as fact”
Fuck. I’m stealing this comment - it’s brilliant.
It’s why I stole it
What a nice original comic you made
… I’ve never seen that attributed before. Wow.
I didn’t know it was nedroid. I love their shit
And it feels wrong for this comic.
- “The Internet.” by denshirenji
The fact that we don’t even know the ratio is the really infuriating thing.
I was at first wondering what google had done to piss off Weird Al. He seems so chill.
First Madonna kills Weird Al, and now Google.
WILL THE NIGHTMARE EVER ENDHi everyone, JP here. This person is making a reference to the Weird Al biopic, and if you haven’t seen it, you should.
Weird Al is an incredible person and has been through so much. I had no idea what a roller coaster his life has been! I always knew he was talented but i definitely didn’t know how strong he is.
His autobiography will go down in history as one of the most powerful and compelling and honest stories ever told. If you haven’t seen it, you really, really should.
ITT NO SPOILERS PLS
Not a spoiler but FYI, that biopic was 100% Al generated
You can’t spoiler historical fact, man. It’s history!
They made him a moderator of alt.total.loser.
removed by mod
either this joke has about 2 days of life left in it, or it’ll go “too many chefs” and endure for years
I vote for as many chefs as possible
It takes a lot to make a stew.
If only there was a way to show the whole world in one simple example how Enshitification works.
Google execs: Hold my beer!
Just let an algorithm decide. What could go wrong?
Don’t worry the algorithm has been designed to DO THE RIGHT THING
spoiler
… for the shareholders
Bummer. I like weird Al.
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Basically anyone can get banned by Google.
My thoughts exactly.
Probably one of the shitstains in Google’s C-suite after having signed a “wonderful” contract to get access to “all that great data from Reddit” forced the Techies to use it against their better judgement and advice.
It would certainly match the kind of thing I’ve seen more than once were some MBA makes a costly decision with technical implications without consulting the actual techies first, then the thing turns out to be a massive mistake and to save themselves they just double up and force the techies to use it anyway.
That said, that’s normally about some kind of tooling or framework from a 3rd party supplier that just makes life miserable for those forced to use it or simply doesn’t solve the problem and techies have to quietly use what they wanted to use all along and then make believe they’re using the useless “sollution” that cost lots of $$$ in yearly licensing fees, and stuff like this that ends up directly and painfully torpedoing at the customer-facing end the strategical direction the company is betting on for the next decade, is pretty unusual.
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Can you tell me what the previous poster thinks is “pretty unusual”? I can’t understand the giant run on sentence
I didn’t even read most of his comment tbh
Do you understand what that guy was trying to say?
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Probably one of the shitstains in Google’s C-suite after having signed a “wonderful” contract to get access to “all that great data from Reddit”
If they hadn’t bought and then shutdown what became google groups to sabotage Usenet they could have gotten access to just as good of a data set for free.
kinda reads like ‘Weird Al’ answers… like, yankovic seems like a nice guy and i like his music, but how many answers could he have?
that’s the point of phrasing the title that way, they get engagement from comments pointing it out
All of them?
Wish we would stop using fonts don’t think make a clear differences between I and l.
Well, he did lose on Jeopardy, so I guess to balance it out he must have all the answers?
It was all that time he spent in a closet with Vanna White. He would’ve won otherwise.
He once told me that Everything I Know Is Wrong, and then started calling me and, Dumb and Ugly.
It’s evolving, just backwards.
‘I’m sorry, Google, I’m afraid, I cant do that!’
This thing is way too half baked to be in production. A day or two ago somebody asked Google how to deal with depression and the stupid AI recommended they jump off the Golden Gate Bridge because apparently some redditor had said that at some point. The answers are so hilariously wrong as to go beyond funny and into dangerous.
Hopefully this pushes people into critical thinking, although I agree that being suicidal and getting such a suggestion is not the right time for that.
“Yay! 1st of April has passed, now everything on the Internet is right again!”
I think this is the eternal 1st of April.
One could hope but I don’t think it’s likely.
allowing reddit to train Google’s AI was a mistake to begin with. i mean just look at reddit and the shitlord that is spez.
there are better sources and reddit is not one of them.
[…] a lot of AI companies are “selling dreams” that this tech will go from 80 percent correct to 100 percent.
In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all.
Yeah, it’s well known, e.g. people say “the last 20% takes 80% of the effort”. All the most tedious and difficult stuff gets postponed to the end, which is why so many side projects never get completed.
It’s not just the difficult stuff, but often the mundane, e. g. stability, user friendliness, polish, scalability etc. that takes something from working in a constrained environment to an actual product - it’s a chore to work on and a lot less “sexy”, with never enough resources allocated to it: We have done all the difficult stuff already, how much more work can this be?
Turns out, a fucking lot.
Absolutely, that’s what I was thinking of when I wrote “tedious”; all the stuff you mentioned matters a lot to the user (or product owner) but isn’t the interesting stuff for a programmer.
While I agree with the underlying point, the “Pareto Principle” is “well known” like how “a stitch in time saves nine” is well known. I wish this adage would disappear in scientific circles. It instantly decreases credibility. It’s a pet peeve but here’s a great example of why: pseudo-scientific grifters.
Isn’t that like trying to get pee out of a pool?
