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MagicShel ,

The main benefit of AI search is to strip away all the bullshit advertising and SEO spam page garbage that makes regular Google such an unreliable mess. Step two of AI search is to find a way to get AI to spit out advertising making it just as unreliable and spammy as regular Google.

Just take your fucking billions of dollars and stop trying to make everything shittier, Google.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

The insidious part missing here is that AI search destroys the internet. You no longer search for other people’s pages or content … you simply search for “the answer”.

Sure there might be links and footnotes, but the whole product is to reconstitute the internet into something Google (or whoever) own and control from top to bottom. That is the death of the internet and some of the values which built it in the first place.

Ideally for Google, we all become “information or content” serfs to their AI “freehold”. Every “conversation” we have with the AI or otherwise is more training data. Every post or article or report or paper is just data for the AI which we provide as service to suckle at the great “AI search”.

And lets not fool ourselves into thinking that there isn’t real and convincing convenience in something like this. It makes sense, so long as AI can be useful enough to justify the easiness of it.

Which is why the real issue isn’t whether AI is “good enough” or “not actually intelligent” … that’s a distraction. The issue is what are the economic implications.

AI is hard to train and to keep up to date and it’s hard to improve on … these are resource intensive tasks. Which means there’s centralisation built right in.

AI consumes and stores data in a destructive way. It destroys or undermines the utility of that data … as you can just use the AI instead … and it is also likely lossy (thus hallucinations etc).

So … centralised data eating technology. If we were talking about liberties or property rights or IP or creativity or the economy … an all eating centralising pattern would be thunderously fearsome. Monarchism, Imperialism or colonialism … monopolisation … complete serfdom. It’s the same type of thing … but “just” for information technology … which is maybe not that significant … except how much are we all using the internet for anything and how much are our livelihoods linked to it in someway?

zecg ,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly. I’m not touching a product that can be stealthily enshittified. A product that can EXPRESS OPINIONS that someone tweaked. Besides, I am well versed at finding shit on my own and the amount of time I spend on it is negligable. I’ll be here muttering about hating the antichrist.

Olap ,

Begun, the AI wars have

AllNewTypeFace ,
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

AI “search”, which will find it even if it never existed

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