The death of Stackoverflow is one of these events where the site has been completely killed by AI and yet its contents is completely necessary for AI to know about solving programming problems. Its death will mark the end of AIs ability to learn how to solve programming issues. Its cannibalizing itself in the process, as it destroys its sources it destroys its own ability to learn.

Friends don't let friends use Google.

More Perfect Union did a video on Google's descent into evil. I think it's this one

TLDW: Once Google pivoted from being a search service to an advertising agency, it was motivated to keep users from hyperlinking away from Google, and so offered summaries and alternatives controlled by Alphabet that allowed it to keep offering you ads.

So this AI service is just a natural iteration.

he means reddit mostly. AI SLOP GENERATOR, TRAINING ON SLOP like reddit. with a little of plagiarizing from authors, and artists.

It's the same arc every monopolistic corporation has taken before it, AI is just accelerating the pace of consuming your customer/product because profits must always increase.

There will be no large scale shift from these experiences because most people are either ok, apathetic or blissfully ignorant to the situation, the best you can do is to remove yourself from the exploitation of the userbase. Linux instead of Windows or Android, Almost any search engine other than Google, fediverse instead of reddit, etc.

It's a self defeating strategy as more people turn to ai, less content gets produced so ai becomes static.

I truly believe the token model will kill AI, it will become too expensive

I don't understand how these companies want to seem and think they are so smart by choosing new niche data (scraped) to train AI in a bid to try and make it "smart"....

Has any other living being become "smart" by only ingesting information directly from the Internet? You can train other animals to perform many tasks and can probably say they are smart when they perform them as expected. I doubt any of the training methods is to tape headphones, a screen and sometimes a microphone to their faces forever (I kinda don't wanna know if this false 😶).

The best example we have, is ourselves, and even though we use the Internet, babies are not taught how to walk and talk by only interacting with the Internet.

I feel like I might be saying too much, but I think the best AI we're gonna get is to unplug it from the Internet, and then fucking raise it for 20 years like a normal, super fast-thinking child prodigy. Then just make copies of that and train further by having it go to school for the things needed.

Only a minute away until Google starts a Soylent Green subsidiary company

Google has been cannibalising the net for a decade or so now

Honestly I think Google is pretty fucked in the long term

Nobody google anymore. They just ask chat

We put this real question to AI Mode, "Why does Google Search suck now?" And you won't believe the answer! (Actually, you won't be surprised.)

The Chocolate Factory's AI search substitute offered this completely trustworthy reply:

"You are definitely not imagining it. Users, tech critics, and researchers have documented a measurable decline in Google Search quality. The core issue is that the search engine no longer feels like a tool designed to find the best corner of the web; instead, it feels like a vehicle designed to keep you on Google-owned properties or clicking on monetized links.

"The degradation of Google Search stems from a mix of aggressive monetization, an ongoing arms race with web spammers, and the disruptive introduction of AI features."

AI is gonna be the same path. Once people trust it, it'll stop mattering if it give the best info, what matters is if people buy products and believe advertisements/propaganda.

There just will never be as much money in providing nonbiased and accurate answers as there is in manipulating people. So as long as capitalism runs everything, the end goal will always be manipulating people for someone's profit.

It's not an accident, it's not "enshitification", it's the natural and inevitable result of unregulated capitalism. The only way to avoid it, is to heavily regulate capitalism. Acting like it's a separate problem that can be avoided without regulating capitalism just makes people think we can make unregulated capitalism work, if we could it would be working already.

I... Is that baby eating a human?