chapotraphouse
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No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
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An AI dominated future with no actual AI. It's gonna be so cursed. I hate that they got away with using AI as a marketing term for this shit.
Sadly black hat SEO isn't a "theory" let alone a conspiracy.
It is shit that has existed and thrived since 2006.
"AI" is a marketing triumph, and nothing more.
kids failing school and being forced through anyway, not knowing things that were basic knowledge 10 years ago
"it's okay they can just google it"
the google results
The internet died when capitalism got it's greasy paws into it and created web 2.0
Web 3.0 struggles to be born, and it is defined by being systemically and categorically worse than 2.0 
I was under the impression that this federated network of self-hosted servers we're using to communicate right now was web 3.0
It is? I truly didn't know.
Around where I am, and in much of the internet at large, "Web 3.0" is only talked about when it comes to "how can we put this on the blockchain" or "how can we get even more surveillance and monetization out of this" discussions.
Web 3 was never anything but marketing nonsense. To be fair, that was true for Web 2.0 as well. Web 2.0 was always about rebranding the internet as a profitable thing for high finance to invest in following the 2000 dotcom crash. It had nothing to do with any particular technology, and O'Reilly's manifesto about Web 2.0 was filled with nothing but marketing slogans. After all, he was just a knock-off "Windows ME for Dummies" book publisher who stumbled on a con that San Francisco financiers loved to use. Almost 20 years later the crypto weirdos - who had been at their own con for the majority of the intervening years - thought that making a sequel of O'Reilly's Web 2.0 con would be an excellent idea. It's bullshit all the way down and always has been.
brilliant. Just replace all information with nonsense
make it so if you want accurate information you need to go to the library like it was in the past
If you don't know what you're doing, the internet is already like that. The amount of people who have tried googling shit when I ask them a question and they regurgitate marketing spiel is unreal.
what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results. It's like when singers make songs out of phrases and ruin the phrase for everyone. Get all this capitalism out of my language I have to live in this language
what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results.
Almost any word I bother to look up is first and foremost some bullshit bazinga techbro startup according to browser searches. I have to insist "dictionary" as part of the search to have a chance of not getting a bunch of startup shit peddled at me instead.
for me what kills me is that searching for 'home' used to always go to a map that showed me how to get home, now? and ad for home depot, every time.
the internet wouldn't be this way if Cybersyn/Allende survived and Brezhnev hadn't defunded OGAS 
The internet, like many great and terrible things, will not die quickly or cleanly. It's death throes will be horrible and inflict great suffering, and it's corpse will swell with unnatural life even more terrible than its forbear.
His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
nuking the internet with the math equivalent of xeroxes of xeroxes is a fantastic bit
Not to be too doomer, but if you have things you like on the internet, get an external hard drive and start saving. It's gonna be hard to find things soon
It's already gotten much harder for me to Google good sources of information that goes against the mainstream capitalist ideals compared to a few years ago
It's not just AI, the US state will also greatly expand their control on the flow of information as they continue to increase the need to suppress workers domestically and internationally
Use Yandex. I'm not joking, I have started to get better results on it and the image search is genuinely much better, in particular the reverse image search is waaaaay better.
also good for finding pirated pdfs when libgen fails
quick yandex vs google test:
i searched "soviet union"
google gave me a state department history link on the first page of google
yandex didn't give me that same link until the 4th page
I already do 
I should try switching over to it as my main search engine though. I've never tried their image or video search
Can't speak for video but even the interface for reverse image search is just massively and obviously better when you try it. Both finding the source and "similar images"
That's beautiful
Image reverse search definitely took a big step down when Google consolidated a bunch of image/camera shit into Google Lens
The CIA and other financial institutions already read books from leftist authors to find stats that they need to conceal - Super Imperialism — Michael Hudson
"Politicians in charge of national statistics encourage popular misunderstanding, but my statistical analysis tells a different story from what is widely believed. A few years ago I sought to update my calculations on the impact of U.S. military spending and foreign aid on the balance of payments. But the Commerce Department had changed Table 5 of its balance-of-payments report, dealing with foreign aid and other government programs, in a way that no longer reveals the extent to which foreign aid programs generate a transfer of dollars from foreign countries to the United States. I phoned the statistical division responsible for collecting these statistics, and in due course reached the technician responsible for the numbers. “We used to publish that data,” he explained, “but some joker published a report showing that the United States actually made money off the countries we were aiding. It caused such a stir that we changed the accounting format so that nobody can embarrass us like that again.”
I realized that I was the joker who was responsible for the present-day statistical concealment."
https://medium.com/@davi./super-imperialism-f7e92ba1f4f0
And:
"Well, I thought that this was going to be a warning to other countries. And indeed, there was a very quick Spanish translation and Japanese translation. But the main purchases, as we’ve talked about a year ago, were the CIA and the Defense Department.
Immediately Herman Kahn hired me to the Hudson Institute and gave a very large grant for me to explain to the government how imperialism was working. And the U.S. government used this as a how-to-do-it book."
Jesus fucking christ
Digital Kessler Syndrome
its just all trash
Me putting my microwave into a hard vaacuum cabinet to melt an egg.
As someone that works with cleaning up after AI, nah don't worry, capitalism and climate change with keep it in a tight cage. Future peoples will be confused why capitalist Murica had such limited trite uses for AI similar to how the Imperialist Romans only used the steam engine for opening temple doors or similar stories.
To add, Chat gpt's answers are curated by people not given too long to QA select questions and areas, like the story of the mechanical Turkish chessplayer most of AI's brain power is still human-derived and these workers (esp non-imperial core) are very low paid and non experts in their fields.
I feel like eventually google (and other websites but especially google) will realize the extent of the damage and will have to rebuild their foundations to combat the endless, automated and financially incentivized math hallucinations, but I really wonder how bad the damage is going to get before we reach that point.
Probably a bunch of dead people tbh, see Ann Reardon's series on Litchenberg woodburning
I think it's an open question at this point if highly financialized western capitalism can undertake that kind of productive re-building. Personally I don't think it is capable.
Noticed this the other day when I got a Quora chat gpt answer telling me that it was dangerous to transform a 5V 2.4A electric current to a 12V 1A electric current, to supply electricity to a device needing a 12V 1A input current.
Yeah I'll just supply the device with over double the amperage it's designed for, along with an incorrect voltage, thanks Quora.
pretty rare to see a current sink device out there, I expect it'd be fine with any 12V supply with more than 1A available
Do you feel liberated yet? Aren't you glad your not real job was replaced? 
I love the antichrist actually
There's going to be generations of kids raised on this shit thinking its normal while also being increasingly depressed and blaming their loneliness on a boogeyman sold to them.
AI shit gives me real psychic damage, actual existential dread. Like a bad acid trip.
This (Twitter link) is another example. Seemingly innocuous, but at some point it will result in real pain or worse for people and the world, I'm certain it's just a matter of time.