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Also fuck McKinsey
And then everyone applauded.
I actually like AI very well. Get better detailed answers and still can zero in on specifics with options. If I ask three people, I get three totally different answers.
The issue I (and many) have with the technology isn't the thing itself, but the all-consuming drive to wedge it in everywhere.
It's a tool. Use it where it may be appropriate, and don't demand others use it before they deem it time.
It’s so shitty it ruins everything
The fuck are all these comments? AI is shit, fuck AI. It fuels billionaires, destroys the environment, kills critical thinking, confidently tells you to off yourself, praises Hitler, advocates for glue as a pizza topping. This tech is a war on artists and free thought and needs to be destroyed. Stop normalizing, stop using it.
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And then everyone clapped.
I don't hate AI. That's pointless. I hate the people who use AI to ruin everything, which is the majority of AI users today.
I also hate the term AI.
And I'm not sure about the actual code either.
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The fact is though the average person is starting to replace their search engine with chatgpt, gemini, grok or whatever other llm and I have seen more and more small association using generative ai to make their posters instead of working with artist or doing it themselves.
Google started making their search engine worse and always pushing things that they thought would make them money. It's not surprising people are trying something else.
A good blogpost on this: The Enclosure feedback loop
When everybody uses AI to search, it becomes a closed system that holds all info. Doesn't need to be productive, but it gatekeeps the knowledge that was free on the internet. It's a self-reinforcing loop.
Is this because LLMs are getting better, or because search engines are getting worse?
Because they are definitely getting worse. I get redirected to a brand new slopsite daily.
It's because people thinks AI is like those in the movies (cause it's been advertised so, too), omniscient and infallible. A short while ago I overheard a "imagine, even the AI didn't know it!" which normally would be "Your search didn't return any results".
AI slop has just accelerated the downfall of search engines. Attention based economy, advertising and SEO are the reason you can't find anything useful anymore. The Internet itself is broken and even if there was a good search engine it would struggle to not suffocate in the seo crap out there.
At this point, I am willing to pay a subscription for a search engine if it's ad-free and shows me what I'm looking for.
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Search engines have peaked in early 2010s and hav been deteriorating ever since, becoming virtually unusable since ~2020.
Seriously, google has become unusabe without adding "site:reddit.com" to almost every search. I would like to see something like Perplexity be compared to a proper search engine - if it existed.
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I’m reading AI Engineering by Chip Huyen and it’s an excellent read. As a technologist, I find the topic fascinating and would enjoy building AI agents. While not a silver bullet, generative models definitely represent technological progress and can boost productivity when used correctly. It’s just that as with everything else, the billionaires want to milk it for everything it’s worth and more to the point of crashing the economy and destroying supply chains for their own selfish interests. We just can’t have nice things.
Some people I work with when they do an internet search they go straight to the ai info. Literally read out the first bit of what's there and take that as the truth.
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Do I love my 4-year-old? Yes
Would I let my precocious 4-year-old full of imagination write my business report? Fuck no. Are you stupid or what?
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It's the same as the crypto-blockchain-NFT bullshit. A bunch of idiots with too much money put down on it, then when it doesn't become the hit they expect they start with the propaganda about how it's the greatest thing, and then when THAT fails they just take away other choices or try to cram it into everything anyhow
The problem is that the propaganda is working. Despite what this meme implies, many many people do use and like AI chat bots and in my line of work, I am asked nearly daily which AI is the best to use and how users can have their own AI that answers emails or mocks up ideas or how it can make their daily job easier. I'm the wrong person to ask that to but I understand why they're asking me. I'm their IT guy. I don't particularly care if you use AI in your job because my job is just to make sure your computer keeps working.
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And then everyone clapped... Blah, blah, blah.
And, I do not like AI.
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