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
Not sus, it's bending the knee to a dictator
If you've got one Nazi sitting at a table and Google execs sitting with him, you've got a table full of Nazis.
It was a table of amoral/evil shit bags before they let a nazi sit there.. They just don't bother hiding it anymore.
Gemini is getting dementia as well
Last I checked it refused to speak on politics, still the same?
I just tried it with other active politicians (“Pelosi”) and it answered. Granted, it said there were no credible reports
Why would it refuse to say anything if I search for Trump, but answer with another prominent politician who is in office?
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.
What do you use instead?
Also not the person you are replying to, but I pay to use Kagi so that I am the customer and not the product.
I wanted to try Kagi because it sounds like they'd be better at curating their database and I wouldn't get SEO results? but they don't have regional or coherent pricing. 5 USD for 300 searches? 10 USD for unlimited searches? It's absurd. I get a whole suite of services for the same price as the "Professional" tier. Kagi's infrastructure can't be costlier than Proton's, or Mullvad's, or addy's, Bitwarden's, or Filen's, etc.
I used Kagi for a year. It's fine.
I like the idea of paying for this type of service.
I stopped because... IDK something about the CEO I think.
I've been using searxng for the last year or so, I quite like it.
Is there a tier without AI? Seem the pricing is used to pay AI model instead of search
The pricing was the same before they introduced the Ai.
I mostly use DDG, but sometimes searx.
Startpage returns similarly dubious results as Google, but with the built-in proxy functionality and no clutter, so it's also in the rotation.
Duck is powered by bing and does not block all microsoft trackers with whom they have a partnership.
Bookmark trusted websites and sources and accept that almost all alternative search engines use google/bing, are compromised.
If you are particularly paranoid run your own searxng instance on a anonymously owned server.
The thing to understand is that... people are barely searching these days. The vast majority of people are fully dependent on The Algorithm to tell them what they want to see whether that is a youtube video or a reddit/facebook post or whatever. Google is for quick questions, not reading articles or getting educated on a topic. And... gemini is not horrible for those quick answers. And when it IS horrible, people don't actually care. And the rest is SEO hell to whatever the first fandom wiki result is.
As someone who still very much DOES search for things on the regular? I have some concerns with the company (mostly they seem like bog standard tech bro "freedom of speech" libertarians) but damned if I don't love Kagi. Feels like the internet I grew up with combined with the ability to prioritize or block websites (see: first fandom wiki result) and a halfway decent LLM for those "quick question" searches.
I had my first "internet eating itself" encounter a few weeks ago, when the Google AI result told me something that was factually incorrect, and cited as its source a website that was blatantly AI-generated.
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.
Which is all they want out of human intelligence anyway.
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.
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.
Hey look... the American Great Firewall...
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.
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
I really can't understand how people believe the ultra centralized and monopolized hallucinated ideology machine is supposed to be impartial.
It also blocks "weird orange pedofile signs of dementia"
Do with this what you will 🤣
Two confirmations for the price of one!
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.
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....."
They never lear….. or do they?
I get "Some results may have been delisted consistent with local laws. Learn more" which is pretty strange since I dont know what Canadian laws would incite that...
Pritzker is calling for 25 Amendment https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/
So Portland really is a burning war zone! I knew we never should have allowed that many artisans to hoard mustache wax.
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.
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?
This is 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.
Kagi AI will answer
Some psychiatrists and psychologists have speculated that Donald Trump may be exhibiting signs of dementia. These concerns have been raised by experts who point to his public appearances and statements as evidence of cognitive decline. Factors such as his age (nearly 80) and a family history of dementia have also been mentioned as contributing to these concerns
Specifically, some have identified "four signs" of dementia that they believe Trump is showing. One of these signs mentioned is confabulation, which is described as "honest lying" or memory lapses, and is considered a potential indicator of dementia
However, it is worth noting that one report indicated Trump was assessed for cognitive function, which was found to be normal. Despite this, questions about his mental acuity persist among some observers
There’s that new video about trump having CHF, and a real diagnosis for CVI that went under the radar a few years back. They can certainly be related to each other. He’s definitely got real health problems.
Turns out when companies were all about "CoLlAbOrAtIoN", they actually meant collaborating with a bullshit fascist propaganda mill dictatorship
We just need a codename for him. Winnie The Pooh is already taken, so I purpose Golden Calf.
dementia don
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