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Lololololol. Reddit is 80-90% bots anymore. Real people are no longer making informed posts like we did ten plus years ago.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

How do they scrape Google? Even if they search for a term and crawl the results, those aren’t actually googles content.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if people really got banned on Reddit for posting nonsense. I remember responding to several comments where people threw random words in and spelled stuff wrong. It was a funny trend, but could have set back their billion dollar AI.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is that why people were doing that?

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe. Its like "Bazinga" and "Google en passant" before that. With Bazinga you would just randomly use the word Bazinga.

However in the "en passant" you would post a chess board depicting a move and some advice such as "when the king is in this space he cannot be check mated because he can make one move like a knight". To which people would ask if that was a valid chess move. OP would then advise it was, and to "Google en passant". People would then post random feedback.

People have been trolling AI for years.

[–] tetrahedron@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Wait until the AI finds out about Il Vaticano

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have seen posts that were edited to be random dictionary words on Reddit. Complete nonsense.

Most have just removed their replies while others deleted their accounts.

People have been protesting for a while.

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[–] rirus@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most popular use case seemed to be

General questions

Trip Planning

Buying stuff

[–] rirus@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What's on google? Why is it so on top? Maybe Maps? There are already 3 other Map Providers there and also yelp and TripAdvisor for ratings.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

There's text on Pinterest?

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

WTF? How is it EVER right?

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not a Luddite in general, but as for AI I will probably only use it as necessary in the workplace. So far the main LLM AI I have gotten any use out of is Google's Gemini. It lists the citations of its facts when I ask it physics questions, and it seems like there is some kind of filter on the quality of the sources than can be cited. Mostly it cities professional publications, Wikipedia, etc.

I don't think Google is currently winning the AI arms race (not do i think they have stood by their initial mantra of 'Don't be evil'), but it seems like that should be the gold standard. And Google/Alphabet was also the company responsible for Alpha Fold, IMO the most impressive application of learning algorithms to date.

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