The death of Stackoverflow is one of these events where the site has been completely killed by AI and yet its contents is completely necessary for AI to know about solving programming problems. Its death will mark the end of AIs ability to learn how to solve programming issues. Its cannibalizing itself in the process, as it destroys its sources it destroys its own ability to learn.

Friends don't let friends use Google.

More Perfect Union did a video on Google's descent into evil. I think it's this one

TLDW: Once Google pivoted from being a search service to an advertising agency, it was motivated to keep users from hyperlinking away from Google, and so offered summaries and alternatives controlled by Alphabet that allowed it to keep offering you ads.

So this AI service is just a natural iteration.

It's the same arc every monopolistic corporation has taken before it, AI is just accelerating the pace of consuming your customer/product because profits must always increase.

There will be no large scale shift from these experiences because most people are either ok, apathetic or blissfully ignorant to the situation, the best you can do is to remove yourself from the exploitation of the userbase. Linux instead of Windows or Android, Almost any search engine other than Google, fediverse instead of reddit, etc.

he means reddit mostly. AI SLOP GENERATOR, TRAINING ON SLOP like reddit. with a little of plagiarizing from authors, and artists.

I don't understand how these companies want to seem and think they are so smart by choosing new niche data (scraped) to train AI in a bid to try and make it "smart"....

Has any other living being become "smart" by only ingesting information directly from the Internet? You can train other animals to perform many tasks and can probably say they are smart when they perform them as expected. I doubt any of the training methods is to tape headphones, a screen and sometimes a microphone to their faces forever (I kinda don't wanna know if this false 😶).

The best example we have, is ourselves, and even though we use the Internet, babies are not taught how to walk and talk by only interacting with the Internet.

I feel like I might be saying too much, but I think the best AI we're gonna get is to unplug it from the Internet, and then fucking raise it for 20 years like a normal, super fast-thinking child prodigy. Then just make copies of that and train further by having it go to school for the things needed.

It's a self defeating strategy as more people turn to ai, less content gets produced so ai becomes static.

I truly believe the token model will kill AI, it will become too expensive

We more less vibe-coding and more coders with thigh-high striped socks.

Google has been cannibalising the net for a decade or so now

Only a minute away until Google starts a Soylent Green subsidiary company

Honestly I think Google is pretty fucked in the long term

Nobody google anymore. They just ask chat