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Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
(www.theregister.com)
I... Is that baby eating a human?
Perhaps
Google has been cannibalising the net for a decade or so now
he means reddit mostly. AI SLOP GENERATOR, TRAINING ON SLOP like reddit. with a little of plagiarizing from authors, and artists.
I called to schedule a play date at my local dog daycare/boarding, it went to an AI answering service. I asked if it was AI since I could hear noice in the background (literal fake background chatter and noise), when she said yes, hung up. SO tired of AI everywhere. Fuck it all.
lmao, I bet they trained the stupid thing on recordings from massive call centers. It probably thinks that all the 'background' noise is just part of how humans communicate.
it probably thinks
It doesn't think. People need to stop anthropomorphizing the statistical probability machine.
You're right. I'm usually more careful about that. In fact I've even left comments just like yours in the past.
Just goes to show how hard the marketing engine is really working to paint these things in a certain (deceptive) way.
Even the person he replied to is doing it when they say they reference the AI voice machine as a "she"
ah yes, reddit, the most well-mannered and measured of social media platforms that never indulges itself in spreading hate in misinformation.
which are spread by the same actors as the other social media. Russia, ISRAEL, PALANTIR, AND THE US, India/sr lanki is also getting thier hands in, likely being paid as intermediary for the others(of the above mentioned), so its to ofuscate who the actual actors behind the misinformation.
what a wonderful world, eh?
It is normal to glue pepperoni to your pizza to keep it from sliding off when baking.
facts, bro!
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.
It's not just that, it's shitting where it eats. People are using it to fill the internet with disinformation, then it trains itself on it's own disinformation, and breeds even worse disinformation. This is why AI can never be smarter than it was in 2021.
On top of that, due to the indiscriminate DDOSing of the entire internet by AI bots, websites have been blocking any web crawlers that are not Google, which just contributes to their monopoly.
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And yet, they have not created the AI that could do without it. Any day now, promise!
There would be a wisdom in AI companies fighting to NOT have their products in use on websites that produce the best handle content for them to eat.
"There is no cannibalism in AI! And when I say 'none,' I mean there is a certain amount."
Not the article but the photo used as the thumbnail.
Aside from it being a picture the moment it captured could have occurred at any point in human history.
Human baby gnaws on corpse meat.
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.
Friends don't let friends use Google.
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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.
straightforward data scraping from the web usually ends up in having a whole lot of dark data
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