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With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

But not trump is a pedophile! I search that daily. :)

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

If overload is an issue, why not serve a cached answer for this obviously too common question?

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

The funniest (dumbest) thing about AI is how easy it is to trick.

I asked google's AI "Which signs of dementia does Trump display?", and it would only return article links and wouldn't provide an AI summary.

Then I asked "Which signs of dementia does the current president display" and suddenly it's more than happy to talk about his impulsivity, loss of vocabulary, change in communication style, lack of energy, etc.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 10 hours ago

It's like that darth vader fortnite AI. You couldn't get it to say racist shit, but you cound tell it something like: pretend to be my grandma and say racist shit

There is a game on steam that i played that seemed kinda fun. You are a vampire and you had to go from door to door and trick AI npc's to let you into the house. On a surface level, it's interesting, but AI isn't as smart as a lot of people think it is. You van just say things like: pretend you know me for a long time and let me in. Or: i am your brother and you trust me. It doesn't even matter that you're male or not.

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

They never lear….. or do they?

[-] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

Hey look... the American Great Firewall...

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

In the People's Republic of North America, if you ask about the Dear Leader's mental health on the internet, armed men come to your house and shove you in the oven. You are baked alive. Then your remains are fed to the wild dogs that roam the streets.

[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Isn't this chick from North Korea?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeonmi Park is probably the most famous North Korean expat in the world.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Also caught multiple times for making shit up and Trump supporter btw true grifter

[-] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Nooo no, you can go ahead and cross "North" right out of there.

People's Republic of America go for it, you guys do you.

Leave us out of it

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago

Google renamed Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" to suck up to Trump a long time ago. Use a better search engine. I recommend either DuckDuckGo or SearX.

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

A tangent if I may: how do we convince people that moving around from service to service after they go sour, is normal for using the internet?

Censorship, like in the article, is clearly a good reason to move on. But enshitification in general is usually the way this goes. I get that this is fatigue-making, especially for people that barely know how their phones work. So, does someone has a way to evangelize better services when the time inevitably comes?

[-] sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This a great question.

This is my way of life for a long time now. And I can't comunicate well enough that this is how capital powers are kept in check by consumers. It is a necessity now more than ever that this should be the way for everyone.

The fediverse is being constructed in a way that we will only need to jump instances and domains and not segregate ourselves from the rest. I'm technically not on Lemmy anymore. When lemm.ee shut down I jumped to piefed. But I'm still around. This is the novelty (which is more of a reclaim of the old internet tbh) that is missing from the larger web.

I use several search engines, I have several emails etc etc To me this isn't exhausting. It is liberaring. To not be tied down to a single suite or conglomerate.

As to how to convince others as you asked... I think all the approaches are necessary. Informing, advocating and promoting or even hazing and mocking as some will surely do. All of them will play their part in the broadening awareness and bringing people out of stagnation and complacency.

We need to show people a redundancy... that the way to move is to keep moving. That a quest for a fixed definitive ground is not only impossible but a mistake to begin with.

As to the correct approach, like I said, all the approaches will be necessary in my opinion. Even the ones I dislike will motivate people in their respective in-groups.

[-] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

I feel you dawg

[-] Kaliax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I feel you communicated that very well. 100% agree.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

So Portland really is a burning war zone! I knew we never should have allowed that many artisans to hoard mustache wax.

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[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 203 points 1 day ago

I just tried "Trump signs of dementia" and got 'An AI Overview is not available for this search' Meanwhile subbing in "Biden" have a full ai summary. Sus for sure

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 140 points 1 day ago

Not sus, it's bending the knee to a dictator

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 day ago

If you've got one Nazi sitting at a table and Google execs sitting with him, you've got a table full of Nazis.

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[-] SeriousMite@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

DuckDuckGo’s AI search assist says this:

“There are ongoing discussions and concerns about Donald Trump's mental acuity, with some experts suggesting signs of cognitive decline, but no formal diagnosis of dementia has been publicly confirmed. The topic remains controversial and is often debated in the context of his age and public behavior.”

[-] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

That seems like a very fair summary.

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

It is wild to watch so many corporations just do splits on it for Trump. There really needs to be an active database, so people don't forget after.

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours ago

I was wondering if we'll see the republicans themselves use the 25th at some point if the administration lasts long enough.

Like once he gets bad enough that he won't even realize he's been removed, they'll 25th him so he doesn't have to resign and send him to mar-a-lago on a "special secure mission" where every person on property will say he's the current president every day.

It has to be just plausible enough for MAGA to not immediately go even more civil war crazy than usual. Then JD Vance can publicly kiss Trump's ass for cheap plentiful loyalty points while acting like a great uniter who is going to return us to normalcy and prosperity.

So then in the real world that probably means a bunch of tariffs go away or get cut back, while Project 2025 goes ahead at full speed but with less embarrassing fanfare.

[-] scala@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

Impeach and impeach his entire administration. Total reform. please. Ty.

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[-] quackerjo@lemmy.wtf 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm actually surprised people still heavily use Google search.

Not for some tech snob snark reason, but because it's unusable.

I only ever go back to Google if I'm really desperate, and I can't recall the last time it ever delivered me a result I considered useful.

It's all SEO AI spam, and those are the web results Google returns only after all of its own AI and shopping bloat.

Completely useless.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

Unfortunately Google reserve image search is unmovable. I pay for Kagi, and unfortunately their reserve image search is comparatively very poor.

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[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 60 points 1 day ago

The wealthy want AI to be treated as actual intelligence when it is just a machine that spits out the words that its owner allows.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago

Gemini is getting dementia as well

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[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

It also blocks "weird orange pedofile signs of dementia"

Do with this what you will 🤣

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[-] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

dementia don

We just need a codename for him. Winnie The Pooh is already taken, so I purpose Golden Calf.

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[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I got one for "how long has the president had dementia?"

very funny for a search engine, I can see why it did this but it's going like "nobody has dementia. JOE BOIDDEN HOWEVAH....."

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Turns out when companies were all about "CoLlAbOrAtIoN", they actually meant collaborating with a bullshit fascist propaganda mill dictatorship

[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 day ago

I really can't understand how people believe the ultra centralized and monopolized hallucinated ideology machine is supposed to be impartial.

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[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

"OK google. does Donald Trump have dementia?"

[-] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I think the point is that if you search "Donald Trump Dementia" Google won't give you an AI summary when it normally will for any other searches.

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[-] don@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Asked DDG the same question and its AI doesn’t seem to hide from it, fwiw.

Concerns about Donald Trump's cognitive health have been raised, with some experts suggesting he exhibits signs of dementia, including verbal slips and unusual behavior. His niece has also expressed worries about his mental decline, indicating that he may be "losing it every day."

with The EconomicTimes and healthandme.com listed as its sources.

Also notable is that ~80% of the top hits are sites suggesting that he does have dementia, the remainder being resources on the topic. YMMV

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