• Victor@lemmy.world
      15·
      9 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.

  • underThunder@thelemmy.club
    50·
    9 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.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      17·
      9 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.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    42·
    9 days ago

    Yesterday, as the goog search-results-page was taking 4-5 seconds to generate the AI-guff at top, it made all the site-links unclickable until AI summary was done. 🚽

    (Disclaimer: Was on a random PC)

  • 87Six@lemmy.zip
    28·
    8 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.

  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.caEnglish
    27·
    9 days ago

    I honestly thought it was already doing this. Whenever I accidentally use Google on my phone, it gives me the ai result that I have to exit out of, before I can see the results list.

    Maybe it wasn’t that way for desktop?

    Either way, I am trying to avoid Google and microslop as much as I can. I’m slowly removing them from my life, piece my piece.

    Email is my next challenge. I really hoped self-hosting it would be easier by now.

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
      14·
      9 days ago

      Actually, the advertisers lose too, this is just a way to get people to search more than once so advertisers dollars don’t go as far.

        • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          12·
          9 days ago

          There are multiple stages of enshittification:

          1. The company offers a useful service, often for free or at a reasonable price.
          2. Once it’s gained enough users, the company cuts corners to save costs, and abuses the users to sell their information, attention, work, and / or time to business customers, like advertisers, and might start charging for the once free service, or increase costs. This significantly degrades the quality, usefulness, and usability of the service, but by this point the users probably have no alternative, or most other alternatives are doing the same.
          3. Once it’s gained enough business customers and cornered the market, it starts cutting corners, degrading the service, and increasing costs for these customers, who, again, by this point have no viable alternative.
          4. Once the degradation and cost increase have reached the level beyond which even the captive users and customers would start leaving in significant numbers, the corporation extracts as much money as possible from its investors and stockholders, for instance “investing” in datacentres that won’t ever be built while distracting them with shiny but useless “innovations” like AI.
          5. The CEO runs away with the money, possibly including a bailout, and the company dies, leaving the investors and stockholders with the debt, the users without a service, the customers without a product, and society poorer than before point 1.

          Google is currently at stage 4, having abused both users and customers to the point that many are leaving, and burning money as fast as possible to enrich the top brass and try to look like a company worth investing in.

          It won’t be long before it implodes, but it’ll still be too long.

        • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
          5·
          9 days ago

          That’s true, but only juuuuust enough to keep the advertisers paying. There is no incentive for a monopoly like Google to provide better service for their customers (their customers are the advertisers) than the bare minimum, since they have no meaningful competition.

  • hobovision@mander.xyz
    23·
    9 days ago

    And if you try to use the AI search to actually find any actual websites or articles it will just hallucinate them. They kept telling us AI was the future of search, but we know they want it to be the future of information.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      91·
      9 days ago

      Its just that they can’t afford to not be. You leaving for another site is heresy with how much money they need to make on selling ads and you.

      And the middle man has decided they have overheard enough of the conversation going both ways to just “know” what you are about to ask and what the answer should be.
      This is the new market for them. Not being a search algorithm but being a magical information hoarder that can predict everything about their user and their brand partners.

      They want to be Madame Leota