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They really are going all in on stupid.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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My favourite line from that song. 👍
There was a video for it that I loved when I was a kid.
Mark Mothersbaugh (of Devo): "I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and... I hate him for it, basically."
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I'm sorry, but I don't see how anything can beat "Put down that chainsaw and listen to me". It may be the best opening line ever sung.
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AI powered stupid.
Artificial Stupidity
Google is not showing the web anymore, it's showing it's own content now, stolen from the web.
People don't even leave their site now with Ai results, that Google controls and can modify how they want.
Not sure what to do about this. The general public will be completely lost in Google.
Best part…
The web filter is in that stupid filter carousel, and it’s just off of the screen on mobile. So you have to swipe left from the top of the screen to view web results.
Oh my God, they put it after flights.
For you. It’s dynamic and the links keep changing location now. That bar is terrible now.
"See, it gets more clicks!"
Yeah, because you've filled the top page with it, jackass.
As useful as the technology can be, I am getting tired of this AI crap.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The feature, renamed "AI Overview," is here now, and it feels like the biggest change to Google Search ever.
When Google decides you have an AI-appropriate query, it now takes a lot of scrolling to see web results.
Page three is the bottom half of the video box, then a "Discussions and forums" section with Reddit and Quora posts.
Google claims "that the links included in AI Overviews get more clicks than if the page had appeared as a traditional web listing for that query," but that's honestly hard to believe.
When Google takes the content from one or several sites, rearranges it with AI, and displays it, in full, at the top of the results, why would any user click through?
Assuming AI overview works the same way, Google has not said how it expects something like this to be sustainable for web publishers.
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I'm guessing these are changes for chrome users? I haven't seen any of those new AI changes. Granted I don't use Google primarily, and was only testing a few times.