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It’s crazy to me how far we’ve gotten away from sanity. How long until Google starts fucking with summaries and inserting corporate opinions because a website contains content capitalism doesn’t align with? Like a website about anti-Zionism for example.
I'd be surprised if this isn't already happening or at the very least being tested on a smaller scale.
Oh yeah, it is definitely heavily biased already. Just google anything controversial and you'll see it to some degree.
"Is ICE doing illegal operations" -> "Allegations..." Anything about the strait of hormuz -> straight up no summary whatsoever lmao
Google, tell me about the Gulf of Mexico.
Did you mean Gulf of America?
It will be in the form of a “warning” or something.
And the next generation of AI gets trained on the AI summaries so it loses all contact with reality.
"But how about I just summarize it for you instead.. poorly and with a few lies added in?"
My wife works at a library. People constantly come in asking to use the library fax machine, because Google's AI says they have one.
They don't have one. Their website says they don't have one. But LLMs have determined it's plausible for libraries to have a fax machine, so Google tells people that they have one.
You'd be surprised at the number of people who can't accept that people working at the library know more about the library than Google.
I've had this experience myself; I'm an American living in the Netherlands and sometimes just don't know the name for the thing I need nor where to buy one. LLM bots are fine for the translation part, but they will make wild assumptions like telling me I can buy a kitchen strainer at the hardware store or food spices at a place called Kruidvat which translates to spice-bucket basically but is actually most like CVS without the pharmacy and does not sell any food besides some candy and chips.
It's hilarious how quickly these bots can swing from super useful to actually harmful to trust.
She never told them to use AI to locate and operate the fax machine?
_Oh wow, I was reading some other websites to summarize this one, and apparently their competitor (who happened to pay for ad placement on this websites name plus url) says this website throws puppies into volcanos!
Oh, and you need to eat 6 rocks a day for your nutrition.
Was this summary helpful, or do you also throw puppies into volcanos?_
Also very lengthy. It can't really summarise without rambling. It's in no way succinct and too chatty.
That’s the biggest problem in my opinion. They are scary good at generating text. But there’s effectively no filter, it’s just an endless stream of vaguely plausible text, true or false. And unfortunately, humans are prone to think “wow that’s a lot of text, they must’ve done their research and put in tons of effort!” because historically that was for the most part true.
For example: all those guys who say “AI made me 10x more productive” are almost certainly measuring it by lines of code. As we all know, more code is almost inevitably an unmaintainable buggy mess.
As we all know, more code is almost inevitably an unmaintainable buggy mess.
...and 10x longer than it needs to be.
That’s the biggest problem in my opinion.
no, the biggest problem is they are stealing someone else's work and making money with it, depriving the original author reward for their work.
Even bigger than that is the environmental impact the stupid data centers for LLMs do.
Copyright is a fictional protection designed to enrich corporations. It does very little for actual creators. If this is what it takes to destroy copyright, so be it.
As an actual professional creator, yes. Fuck copyright.
I mean, LLMs are quite literally random word generators with weighted input. The one thing they do best is generate random strings of words according to the rule set defined within the model.
How about I summarise it? That way you don't have to deal with a cookie popup, a news letter popup, a signin with google popup, a request to send notifications to your browser popup, a back button that doesnt take you back to your previous page, and ads between every other paragraph.
Don't forget the requests for location access that the site totally definitely needs...
Browsing the modern internet without uBlock origin and maybe a cookie consent blocker is truly a horrible experience.
uBlock origin and NoScript are my EDC
How the FUCK are people okay with the sign in with Google pop up?
If you have any sign up with Google it adds itself to your site. Then it hijacks the user session by showing a large dialogue over your content. No, you can’t disable that, and if you do they might block visitors from finding your site. They might not, but maybe they will.
Why deal with user accounts yourself when you can Oauth it to big tech?
This, and newspaper writing style which endlessly beats around the bush, actually are the reasons for the mainstream accepting AI summaries. AI summaries only work because the Internet is a hellscape of intentionally bad UX with site-owners being hostile towards their users.
It’s sadly been like that since before they implemented AI
Can I recommend you an ~~egg~~ AI-summary-free search engine in this trying time? https://www.ecosia.org/