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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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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 107 points 5 months ago

I love that my almost 2 decades of shitposting will be put to... use?

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

Yes. Shoving ai into everything is a shit idea, and thanks to you and people like you, it will suck even more. You have done the internet a great service, and I salute you.

[-] Mechaguana@programming.dev 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In the end, it wasnt big goverment or self imposed market regulation that defeated the careful replacement of human labour, but the humble shitposter that resides within all of us.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

You're welcome humanity.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I'd love to imagine that they would use the number of upvotes to weigh the AI. I mean, they won't. but they could.

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

They do, but something like fucksmith's pizza would be upvoted for being funny, not for being correct.
The LLM wouldn't know the difference.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

They absolutely use that value in some way. It's right there for them to use.

this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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