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The complete destruction of Google Search via forced AI adoption and the carnage it is wreaking on the internet is deeply depressing, but there are bright spots. For example, as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for. And that is to confidently serve its customers ideas like, to make cheese stick on a pizza, “you can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to pizza sauce, which comes directly from the mind of a Reddit user who calls themselves “Fucksmith” and posted about putting glue on pizza 11 years ago.

A joke that people made when Google and Reddit announced their data sharing agreement was that Google’s AI would become dumber and/or “poisoned” by scraping various Reddit shitposts and would eventually regurgitate them to the internet. (This is the same joke people made about AI scraping Tumblr). Giving people the verbatim wisdom of Fucksmith as a legitimate answer to a basic cooking question shows that Google’s AI is actually being poisoned by random shit people say on the internet.

Because Google is one of the largest companies on Earth and operates with near impunity and because its stock continues to skyrocket behind the exciting news that AI will continue to be shoved into every aspect of all of its products until morale improves, it is looking like the user experience for the foreseeable future will be one where searches are random mishmashes of Reddit shitposts, actual information, and hallucinations. Sundar Pichai will continue to use his own product and say “this is good.”

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[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you think Google will recommend microwaving your iPhone to recharge it's battery at some point?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but that actually works tho

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oh gods what happens when the ai discovers the poop knife

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Or the cumbox. Or that kid who broke his arms. Or that dog, Colby I think? No wonder AI always wants to exterminate humanity in sci-fi.

[–] Lena@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I want AI answers that end saying that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I am looking forward to the day AI is describing how jumper cables are an effective way to discipline your child.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Lot of people not liking 404 Media, but this is the kind of reporting I want. Point out what's going wrong. Bring it to a conversation without a lot of skew. Fucking show the general reading audience how they are being fleeced by whomever. Didn't Vice do this at one point?

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I recall vice doing that at one time also.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

They were always hit-or-miss, but we're all worse off for them getting eaten by a hedge fund.

[–] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, basically shitposting poisons AI training. Good to know 👍

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Wanted to like, but 69 likes at this time

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Cyanoacrylate or elmers?