Why do companies love putting AI in everything? Are they trying to drive away their customers? I just want to search normally.
>>108866529Search is actually the only thing token sloppers have a potential to be good at, if only they could train them to shit out proper sources/references for any non-obvious statement like a wiki article and validate that the references are real.
>>108866529It was already fucking confusing and needlessly beurocratic that there's a difference between AI Mode and Gemini and now we have to deal with a third piece of shit that doesn't share history? Cool.
>>108866529You can adjust the system prompt at any time and rewrite history by doing so.
>>108866565true i struggled with this when the ai mode update came out
>>108866572ok
>>108866529CEOs have to report to boards that read headlines and think 'we've got to get on this AI trend!'
>>108866529these tech companies have no other plays to "drive shareholder value" other than putting AI slop into everything. getting rid of the stock market would make everything 500x better imomost of us don't have any meaningful amount of stocks anyways
>>108866529Same reason the giants are still pushing for return to the office.>invest billions into obvious dead ends (AI and office space) because some retard says infinity % ROI>investments don't pay off the projected infinity % ROI>sit on massive money graves and have to somehow monetize it before the shareholders chimp out
It gets them free investor money.
>>108866529Why don't they implement regular expressions instead of this garbage? They are infinitely more useful while using only a millionth of the processing power.
>>108866529>Are they trying to drive away their customers?Drive them away where?
>>108866648i meant that in the way people stop using their products
>>108866648outer space
I registered a company in September. I have 2 major clients (millions in potential pipeline if I can get employees to scale) and multiple other people begging me to get my software. At this stage in the company, a lot of development and customization is needed to make the software ready for each new client onboarded, and I have 0 capacity to do this with the other 2 clients + fundraising happening at once.I've been fundraising the whole time and still got nothing.There is 0 funding outside muh AI regardless of field right now.I just slapped 'AI' on this last month and I've had more first calls so far than I've had between september and last month, even though I've slowed down considerably with outreach.So that's your answer. If you don't say AI you don't get funding. If you get AI you have at least an infinitely higher chance of getting funding.
>>108866529>screenshotted from google chromethats why they do want they want goy, because youll keep putting up with it and they get more data to sell and encroach more and more into peoples lives and routines
>>108866529It's because normal shitification takes a long time to complete, with AI it starts out as shit and ends up as shit so it saves time for the board of directors.
>>108866529Investors can't get enough of it. Line must go up.
>>108866529Just found out about that shit. Finally switched to DDG.
company I work for recently went with a full redesign that looks like a copy of chatgpt or whatever llm website. Really incredible stuff, thinking about asking my buddy if he can land me a comfy job working railroad or something. This shit is gay.
>>108866529>companies>i just wantGoogle offers a free service, they have always been a private company, there are a 2 person bedroom startup. They don't owe you shit communist rat.
>>108866544>train them to shit out proper sources/references@gork make me an ai to point you where you need to look in docsif it hillucinates and is wrong I'll know and will have read a bit so net positive, if it's correct I'll have saved time make it one trillion parameters and based
>>108866529AI has a ton of uses, but a lot of HR people have no fucking idea what it does because these parasites have never had to know a god damn thing in their life.
>>108866529Because we are in the post-2008 world in which there's an underlying fear that the system could crash any moment if we don't feed it another round of hype.The tech boom has fed the stock market plenty since 2008, but since mid-2010s they haven't produced much that could be presented as the next big thing. THey tried VR, AR, glasses, nothing stuck.So they revived the old academic pipe dream called AI and used it to prop their stock valuations and just keep drip-feeding the media and investors "updates" about how it's gonna be huuuge, it will change everything.So if you don't integrate it in your company, you're not up to speed, you're old news, your stock won't grow.Before this there was the app boom that died out in the latter part of the 2010s. Every company got their (((app))) and they're all shoving it down everyone's throats because they invested in them and want to have their own walled garden.
>>108868103quit the larp jewwe know
>>108868308sort of true, the tech system can and should collapse as nothing of value has been produced they are all riding the vapors of the social media wave of late aughts, everything else has been a huge nothing borger and they only direction they've been pointed is being the lap dogs for the surveillance state
Thank god this exists
>>108866529aren't they just trying to do some harder to detect astroturfing?with regular ads and search rank reordering they have to declare that it is an ad in a whole lot of countries and it is far less effective/far less popular to hire them for that.
>>108868587good idea but increasingly more of the search engines other than picrel put rate limits on the searxng instances
>>108868308>>108868394Outside of AI basically everyone else is on recession footing. A burst might unironically be good long term, it'll maybe spread investment wider, and make the economy more healthy overall. I only have laymen knowledge from reading/watching a bunch of material on the matter but it seems silicon valley and it's investors were able to borrow money at almost negative interest since the 2008 recession up to covid more or less, which is part of what created the wasteful startup culture there. the money situation changing is part of what's driving enshitification because they need to cut costs and claw back money somehow. But like anon above said, AI is exciting enough to throw caution to the wind and go all in on.
>>108868754This, but also a decades-long laxity in antitrust enforcement leading to these big monopolies, with all the problems thereof. So we have these giants trying to keep the music going so they don't have to admit the real number of chairs, plus money is finally getting expensive again.Buckle up. The next few years are gonna be real bad. I think it will ultimately work out, but we're gonna be a bunch of Depression grandpas and grandmas to the next few generations.
Investors are starting to get cold feet over data center buildouts and google NEEDS to make it seem like they're experiencing growth.
>>108866648Just because google has no competitors doesn't mean I'm going to continue using google.
>>108868754>>108868926THere was a graph that circulated on the internet more than a decade ago.It showed how the internet was divided among tens of medium sites: there was a scene for everything, from digg, tumblr, 9gag, reddit, yahoo, google, aol, flickr, facebook, instagram (when it wasn't bought), various forums.Now if you look at the biggest drivers of internet traffic, it's video (netflix, youtube), then it's search engines, facebook/instagram, and probably bots.So the old internet was gobbled up by a few megacorps that bought everything left and right and turned the whole internet into their own corporate silos, each with its lock-in services, subscriptions, datamining, now AI.
