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How much longer will it take for no AI DDG to go back to being the default again?
uBlock origin with AI Blocklist. Works like a charm.
Thanks! I was just planning on just just checking it out, but when I saw that I could add it to uBlock with a couple clicks, I went ahead and did it.
Every time i see an AI summary, i give it a thumbs down and say « answer is incorrect / misleading ».
unless, of course, the answer actually IS wrong: then i give it an enthusiastic thumbs up
Easy fix, stop using Google search!
What do you recommend?
Waterfox defaults to startpage out of the box, but I think duckduckgo is the most “mainstream” alternative
Switching out your default search engine away from google is such an easy step to take that has a massive impact on how much google can spy on you. It should go without saying that chrome is obvious spyware
The whole reason I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo on all devices, but there’s also the fact the google page is heavy as fuck and takes too long to load because of the AI bloatware
It’s usually just a copy of the Wikipedia page anyway, so I just follow that link. Utterly pointless.
It used to be you use a search engine to find places that have more about the thing you searched for.
Now it’s just, “The thing you searched for is this. You probably already knew that, but fuck you. Now that you’ve made it this far and gotten nothing, scroll down for some clickticles mentioning the thing. Keep going, keep going, keeeep going… There. This site may be a resource of stuff on that thing if you wanna try, but don’t be surprised if you click back after a moment because the algorithm is basically fucked for actual searching. Have you tried Page 5? Yeah, it’s full of unrelated shit. It looks like Pages 1 and 2 are all that the entire internet has on that thing, probably.”
Let’s be honest, many thing broke the internet, but Google was a big contributor to its current state and my god does it suck now. Why do we even still call them “browsers”?
Have you tried Page 5? Yeah, it’s full of unrelated shit. It looks like Pages 1 and 2 are all that the entire internet has on that thing, probably.
This is so real. You’re lucky if you even get anything useful on page 1, but anything beyond it is completely useless, unrelated stuff. And it isn’t just Google.
I run NoScript or GNUJS blocker. That 100% stops AI search summaries.
All of these comments are AI generated.
I go to hug my wife for comfort. She too is AI
What is that weird watermark?
I’m trying to figure out why everyone is so mad about AI?
I’m still in the “wow” phase, marveled by the reasoning and information that it can give me, and just started testing some programming assistance which, with a few simple examples seems to be fine (using free models for testing). So I still can’t figure out why theres so much push back, is everyone using it extensively and reached a dead end in what it can do?
Give me some red pills!
Its no more useful than a wikipedia page, and the most damning part is it consistently just makes shit up
The whole “let me summarise this for you” is pointless to me and is EVERYWHERE. It just adds a lot of friction in my everyday work with zere benefits. If I have a 10 pages pdf document, it means every single line and word is important to me, an summary is totally pointless and can be dangerous.
And I also see a world where people use LLM to enhance their emails, develop their ideas and then the reader of this email uses an LLM to mak a summary of this overly developped writing they recieved. It doesn’t help people to go straight to the point and just adds a lot of friction in communications with zero benefits.
Most of the people obsessed by IA in their workfield are tech people. They have a strong biais that IA will solve everything because it has a very strong impact on their work. In my work (not tech), I tried some new IA stuff and realised it was far from being reliable so on only use it once in a while. And I guess, for many people outside the tech world, LLM are not that usefull overall despite what they hear everyday from tech companies. So there is a huge gap of perception of IA and LLM betweet tech people and other people. I think that’s where all the “hate” comes from.
For most people, IA just costs a lot of energy, rises the prices of hardware without bringing theme any tangible benefits.
I hope my personal point of view helps you understant better why people are upset with current state of IA. I am a “tech curious” person and tried some IA stuff over the past 2-3 years and ended up being very disapointed by the results.
tl;dr : Most people don’t see the benefits of IA, they only see the cost of it.
So there is a huge gap of perception of IA and LLM betweet tech people and other people.
You are correct that there are reasons tech people are more inclined to like these things, but it’s not really because AI is useful to them.
Actually, here’s a good video about its usefulness.
I think the reason tech people are so bought into it is a combination of
- their careers depending on them liking the new tech thing,
- a general sci-fi inspired enthusiasm for what can be accomplished,
- a dash of everyone in this industry being an introvert with no friends,
- and the misconception that, because they can engineer something, they are smarter than the people around them.
That last bullet, I don’t know if you remember the contemptuous rivalry between stem majors and the arts or humanities, any major that was less “useful”—that’s the exact smug attitude I’m talking about. There are a lot of people who think they could just program away life’s many problems.
I like the top comment of the video you suggested. It sums up the current issue : “A computer can never be held responsible, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” - IBM training manual, 1979 Decisions cannot be automated. Many jobs require a lot of decision making and taking responsibility of these decisions.
Theres good reasona for luddite behaviour “they tuk er jerrrbs” style. Theres good reasons for environmental impact. Theres good reasons for fear of privacy, and cyberpunk dystopian overlords forming, and possibly terminators, and anger over theft of intellectual property etc, the fact that you didnt ask for it and its happening to you anyway, the effect its having on the hardware market for home computers/gaming, the fact that its not actually reliable yet.
Theres a lot going on in that space.
You’re right though its pretty incredible, and im still impressed by it, but I dont want to use it because i know it’ll be wrong a lot of the time. The only thing I’d want to use it for is to help me with things I dont know, and in that space I dont know that its doing it wrong. Either I blindly trust it and fuck up my project, or I research everything myself as well to make sure its right and at that point why bother?
It is a marvel, and is pretty great really. Main issues with AI today are that they are hardware-intensive and require cooling, tons of storage and computing capacity, replace workforce with subpar performance, etc.
You see, modern LLMs are generative AI and not really a sentient AI. They have tons of texts and content in their database from which AI will generate answer to your prompt. But more often than never it would generate things that are wrong. AIs task is to generate, not actually think.
It should’ve make us work less hours and have more free time by enhancing our productivity. Yet we lose jobs and have to work more hours while earning less.
