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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're trying to compete with open AI which they shouldn't be... They're a marketing firm with a search engine.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Why does this company suck at AI even more than the other companies? Android has had machine learning for years already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

uh oh!

The future lawsuits, I can see them already, and they will be wild.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

people will die

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The internet and technology moved on. We reached a point where google is obsolete. Google decided to cancel any product they had, that was not as successful as their ads space and now they have nothing else left. Is there even one service left that google is leading in? Maybe chromium browser and that's it. Yet one can easily switch to Firefox right now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I guess they are leading in E-Mail? Whatever that is worth I am not sure. And Youtube is pretty much toe to toe with TikTok so they have that going for them which is nice. But yeah they’ve done a pretty bad job at making themselves indispensable. If anything they‘re looking far more dispensable than ever. Still huge, but their future is rather uncertain.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The answer received for the pizza glue query appears to be based on a comment from a user named “fucksmith” in a more than decade-old Reddit thread, and they’re clearly joking.

Lol. And this is Google, the company that has spent decades engineering ways to sift good information from bad on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kind of assumed it was based on one of those 'how they photograph food' articles that pops up every so often with shaving cream instead of whip cream and motor oil instead of pancake syrup. Pretty sure I've seen one where they mix glue in the pizza cheese to make it more stringy.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Started paying for Kagi. I'm done with Google or Bing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about Firefox? Can't say that I've ever heard of Kagi myself, what makes it so special?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well I guess the main difference would be that Firefox is a web browser not a search engine lmao. Fuck kagi though, CEO/owner is an antisocial lunatic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's wrong with being antisocial?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clinically antisocial, not introverted. Nothing wrong with it necessarily, but it can lead to some negative outcomes for sure.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I won't kinkshame you lol but the negatives almost certainly outweigh the positives for humanity at large.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... aren’t representative of most people’s experiences.

Every AI "answer" I've gotten from Google is factually incorrect, often ludicrously so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

First I was surprised they rolled it out already, then of how bad it was. I knew of Google’s AI blunders from their faked reveals but I didn’t think they‘d actually roll them out in this state. They really just want to turn the internet into the next TV where you don‘t really get to choose when you get to see what exactly and they‘re willing to crash and burn themselves by doing so if they must. Insanity.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, same here. Whereas ChatGPT and Perplexity would tell me it didn't know the answer to my question, Bard/Gemini would confidently hallucinate some bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Really? Like what? I've always had ChatGPT give confident answers. I haven't tried to stump it with anything really technical though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I try ChatGPT and others once every month to see if they improve my programming experience. Yesterday I got fake functions that do no exist, again. I’ll try next month.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I tried asking deeply technical questions and got confidently incorrect responses.

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would we believe the promises of the ones who ruined the primary utility of their core product in the first place, and convinced or blackmailed the rest of the internet to take part in the ruination ? An advertising corporation will tell us to put cyanide on our pizza if it makes them an extra buck this quarter, and google is worse than that. Profit despite the social costs is doing no evil /s

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Don't be evil"

Shit writes itself.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That was removed as their motto in 2015, following a restructuring of Google as a subsidiary of Alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I said it back then and I'll say it again: Calling your mega corporation "Alphabet" sounds hella distopian

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The main reason for the name is that it sorts before both Amazon and Apple in the Big Tech directory. It's literally as petty as that. They obviously chose a word that was related to searching within that criterion, but still.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I thought it was because .xyz had recently become a tld and they loved the sound of abc.xyz

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