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[–] 9 points 11 months ago

Rss users rise up!

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Another reason to stay away from Google Discover.

    RSS is the way to get news from online newspapers. It avoids the bias and nonsence injected by AI and algorithms when getting news via social media and big techs platforms.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one

    No, they wouldn't. Those are the types of clickbait garbage headlines you use already.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago
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    google should experiment with sucking my ass

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    And they'll get AIs to scrape that shit too. And train on it so they can spew higher order nonsense. And so on.

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    [–] 36 points 11 months ago

    Thanks for the archive link.

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  • [–] 65 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    If hypothetically a false headline on a reputable site led to an incident involving injury or death, could Google be found liable in anyway?

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    No because on the google.com eula that you sign by having someone on your family ever Google something redeems them of any liability and gives them a right to sacrifice your first born to AI

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    So what’s happening here is Google is feeding headlines into a model with the instructions to generate a title of exactly 4 words.

    Every example is 4 words.

    Why they think 4 words is enough to communicate meaningfully, I do not know. The other thing is whether novel they’re shoving into their products for free is awful, hence the making things up and not knowing in the context of a video game exploit is not the same as the general use of the word.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Four words seems a fair metric for the shortest descriptive headline. I mean, can you beat "Foot Heads Arms Body"? The only shorter ones are "man bites dog", "Dewey defeats Truman", or something as simple as "WAR" when everyone already knows the details and this is just the official announcement.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    didn't this happen already? the thing is generating AI responses instead of showing me the results first and then I'm not clicking on it because I'm a person

    it's also de-listing a ton of websites and subpages of websites and continuing to scrape them with Gemini anyway

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Apple had to turn it off for their sunmary mode after backlash, even though the option always had the "these summaries are generated by AI and can be inaccurate" warnings placed prominently.

    Google doing this shit without warning or notice will get them in shit water. News portals and reporters are generally not too fond of their articles being completely misrepresented.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    it's not just a matter of misrepresentation. it's directing traffic away from the websites which are creating the content, maybe depriving them of every means that they have of monetizing it

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago

    Clickbait and ai bullshit from Google feed is pretty much all I've ever seen from them in the past year.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Yeah my Ublock Origin block filter is nearly 2000 lines, almost all of it blocking shit like this. If it ever gets nuked on Firefox then I'm going full Kaczynski.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Great make every effort to suck the soul out of internet, of which there is already very little remaining. Then you can jack off to all the money you made while watching the internet that is %100 bots and racists

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    How else are we gonna carry around a pack full of skeleton parts for our necrarmy

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Wow yet another example of forcing AI into something that the AI just makes worse. Must be a day that ends in Y

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  • [+] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)