• XLE@piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    You’re completely right, but I consider that less of a terrifying thing and more of an infuriating one. I’m not terrified because there’s nothing to be afraid of. but there are dumb, evil little men creating these issues.

    Search engines are being made worse to keep people on the major provider sites. I think it started well before chatbots looked like a viable alternative to Google. After all, if you look at results, you have to look longer (and rack up more ad revenue). Nowadays, if you look at the AI overview, Google’s banking on you never clicking through to another site. And of course AI’s being sold as objective.

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      20 hours ago

      I’m not terrified because there’s nothing to be afraid of. but there are dumb, evil little men creating these issues.

      Drunk drivers on the highway are terrifying, precisely because they’re so bad at what they’re doing, and are behind the controls of dangerous machines they shouldn’t have been trusted with.

      The AI tech execs can hurt us, so it is concerning.