• 87Six@lemmy.zip
    28·
    4 days ago

    Louis Rossmann already talked about how if he generates his website content with ai, or post-processes it with ai, it scores #1 in results consistently, whereas THE SAME information written in a human way, scores down in the hundreds.

    They already did it.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      15·
      5 days ago

      I too sometimes wish it would be possible to boo stuff that gets published in digital media. 🫨 Some stuff is just too triggering.

  • ModCen@feddit.ukEnglish
    15·
    4 days ago

    I noticed that dictionary definitions on Google are now AI-generated, whereas they used to be taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, written by humans. Needless to say I much preferred the human-written definitions.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      It’s not even a search engine anymore. It’s just another stream of ad revenue for them. They’re an advertising company, NOT a search company.

  • Folstar@lemmus.orgEnglish
    15·
    4 days ago

    Geez, a person would have to think for like 2, maybe even 5 seconds to forsee how this plays out. Instead of buying apples from the orchard, we’ll be buying apples from the local apple thieves. Hey, why are there no more apples?

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      158·
      4 days ago

      The problem isn’t that AI is dogshit. In fact there are many things that have been revolutionized because of AI. Our understanding of biology has catapulted forward decades because of new models.

      The problem is marketing. Those few use cases, while truely amazing, are only useful for a few things. The marketing of AI is horrible, throwing it into every product whether it makes sense or not. Throwing more money at it when it doesn’t make sense in the vain hopes that will eventually make it profitable. Then manipulating the market so that alternatives to your bad product aren’t feasible.

      These silicon valley narcissists need AI to be profitable more than AI can become profitable.

      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        12·
        4 days ago

        A big part of the problem is that everything is AI and AI is everything. Machine learning, LLMs, and “AI companies” are three very different concepts that get muddled together by newspeak.

        Many machine learning applications are indeed truly innovative and a leap forward in how we deal with certain classes of problems, like in computer vision or computational biology as you mentioned. But the big trouble with LLMs imo is twofold: they are kryptonite for our monkey brains as language is something so uniquely human that it is a literal backdoor into our minds; and as a whole they are both affected and effected by the forced enshittification of capitalism, whether directly or indirectly, and the interests of “others”, leading to some not great times.

        • Stern@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 days ago

          I think homey is using a more expanded AI definition then the “Looks inside: It’s a LLM” one that is generally used today.

          • okamiueru@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 days ago

            Perhaps. My issue is more with the muddy waters when it comes to “AI”. It might be because it’s near to my profession, and I frequently encounter a fervent, yet clueless enthusiasm. When that same lack of specificity is used to argue for what they don’t really understand either, for example:

            The problem isn’t that AI is dogshit. In fact there are many things that have been revolutionized because of AI. Our understanding of biology has catapulted forward decades because of new models.

            It does beg the question if they understand what they are talking about. “AI is dogshit”, is weird. Are we talking about LLMs here? They are great for a lot of things. They are pretty horrible at doing what most seem to think they are great at, but that’s perhaps a different matter.

            Then there is the “Our understanding of biology has catapulted forward decades because of new models”. If we are generalizing “AI models” to include the ones that have contributed to biology, we end up with a definition of “AI” that becomes “model based computational solution optimization”.

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
        24·
        4 days ago

        I agree with you. I’m working on a novel, and it’s been really helpful for preliminary editing advice, and bouncing ideas off of. Not perfect, but it’s better than no one. And I really don’t understand why it’s not marketed more as a collaborative assistant, rather than something that just does mediocre work for you.

        I’m nearly done with book it suggested as research, and i don’t think it could have been a better subject. It’s a great pick for what I needed.

        But compared to ChatGTP, Gemini is fucking retarded.

  • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    20·
    4 days ago

    I love that Google has convinced themselves they can be a massive advertisement company without the mechanism that got us to look at the ads.

  • underThunder@thelemmy.club
    50·
    5 days ago

    Not only will this suck but it will also be very dangerous. A large company whose goals are profit and manipulation that is essentially embedded in society should not be allowed to have this kind of control over this facet of the public square.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    “We, Google, who produce an AI, are now prioritizing AI content in our search engine, in a totally unrelated decision to our AI production, so that we can totally not artificially inflate the imaginary value of AI so as to force more people to use our AI to create content, so it will show in our search engine we’ve gone to lengths to skew results in the favor of AI in to give you the best service imaginable (because its imaginary to think we provide the best of anything)”

    I really wish we’d get another president into the office thats willing to take a massive hammer to these big companies and bust them up into shards again… preferably this time making sure they cant T2000 themselves back together into the original whole, thats somehow worse.