David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems Posts 504Comments 1,206Joined 2 yr. ago
This is specifically about the current shitty "AI Overview" that is currently and specifically pissing people off and Google essaying that as the only interface to search. (Sure they might not, but OTOH predicting future behaviour from past behaviour.)
That they did fucking terrible overviews in the past is not some sort of excuse for the current and specific issue with the current and specific AI Overviews.
wtf with calling hating this extremely hateworthy shit "uncanny-valley reactionism"
acronym-spouting rules lawyers who will crush dissent by a thousand duck nibbles
hey now, my duck nibbling is thoroughly weaponised
i applied the relevant tags and rewrote the intro, may go through the rest later
yeah that's the tell
what if, right, we made a search engine so good it became the verb for searching, and then we replaced it with a robot with a concussion
oh yeah loved that format, perfect
however, Better Offline makes money
I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying
if i stop saying "um" all the time that's half an hour less in post right there
HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg
with the awful (systems) assistance of self, fasterandworse and jp of this parish
no idea when i'll do another one, this one was 3 hrs faff for 5 min video lol
things I need: a better mic, a chair that doesn't swivel
EDIT: done two more since, let's see how we goooo
only from that article lol
J. Oliver Conroy's Ziz piece is out. Not odious at a glance.
I've read Masnick for over 20 years and he's never learnt to write coherently. At least this one isn't blaming Europe.
he started writing about this stuff and it struck a chord with people
sadly not directly
we now have a Reliable Source for Cremieux being Lasker, which we were previously only 99.999999% sure of
the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees
The Information's Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding
it's been an ongoing exit scam
OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies
Aella's timeline on the current Zizian issue (warning: she sure does love her deadnames)
Official Israeli AI Twitter bot backfires, makes pro-Palestinian posts, trolls other official accounts
AI doom cranks present new AI benchmark ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ — be afraid!
YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles
Trump revokes Biden’s executive order on responsible AI, meets with AI CEOs
OpenAI o3 beats FrontierMath — because OpenAI funded the test and had access to the questions
Newspaper AI roundup: Guardian AI strike-breaking, Apple switches off bad summaries, WaPo wants to go AI, AFP, Axios
Could can openers feel pain? How about AIs? Google researchers ask the leading questions