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[–] [S] 169 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Everything satirical and absurdist I've read felt very realistic.

    But again, that's something most autists would sign under, I think.

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    [–] 93 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven't looked back.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.

    Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn't include Copilot or a lowercase i :p

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, don't ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called "Razor."

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I'm aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I’ve started using SearXNG. Are these better?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.

    Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it's essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.

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    [–] 87 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So before posting anything online just say something controversial like nipples and sprinkle it around cock your text. Fuck that will definitely fucking prevent AI from ever shit reach any cunt level of consciousness.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That used to be how you would get past voice response systems and get to an operator quickly as well: just say "fuck", once, clearly.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    This is true and FedEx absolutely used it. Was going through their circular automated phone system saying "Agent" and such until I started cursing. Then, I was finally directed to a person. Not sure if it still works these days though...

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    AI controlling our lives with no humans to plead your case to is like something out of Black Mirror. I am not looking forward to this bleak dystopian future.

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  • [+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I googled turn off the fucking ai and the overviews are now gone. I'm surprised it's that easy to turn off.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Complaining I was recommended by Gemini to contact Google support. When I asked for the link it replied "link to Google".

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    &udm=14 is still unknown??

    Remove all ai automatically, without having to add random profanities.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I like how in their slippery pizza cheese example, google's ai referenced a really old Reddit comment about how adding glue to the cheese will make it less slippery. Lol

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe I just don't Google easy questions, but I have never had that AI overview give me the answer I wanted.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    So stop using them. Google has been worse and worse for at least a decade.

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