I was extremely AI hesitant, but recently I was just like fuck it, I'll use these tools.

I went on Google AI mode multiple times and I noticed:

1. As long as you aren't generating images, you can basically do free tokens forever on it.
2. It has no ads.
3. It's better at finding relevant information than search is.

I found a set of peripherals with it that actually matched my preferences and were not listed on the slop ratings sites. Then I bought it without a hope of Google seeing a red cent from the transaction.

All of this is to say that...they torched their actual business with revenue to give away a largely ad-free thing that's a money furnace and has such negative public sentiment that it probably gets zero traffic except people that are hooking it up to opencode to get free tokens.

It seriously doesn't even require you to login. Everything about it is so fucking stupid from a business angle.

AI is too competitive for anyone to make money at it. Last year OpenAI made a browswer to get ChatGPT traction, and Google "had to" do AI mode. "Making an extra $B is not cool, you know what is cool? $1T eyeball/query share". There's too much "hype metrics" focus to juice stock/IPO values, and AI bubble pop needs to shift from circular financing to outright cannibalizing each other.

Deepseek is an incredible lab, and Xiaomi espcially and several others from China, surprising. US models are good too, but the overspending has no competitive chance vs open models, or China's hardware advantages and progression.

Eh, I am afraid everything will just go to YouTube and Google platforms.

I bet Google will buy Discord too. Hell, maybe Reddit once it tanks?

…I am not smiling at any of this. The destruction of the internet will not be a relief, as Google ultimately owns it already.

“-ai”

Every search, every time.

Hot take: this is their plan to choke out smaller publishers who can't afford to just eat these losses. Once there's no more real alternatives they'll start to squeeze

Maybe if it's ai mode could provide accurate information it would be better.

get ready for ads in ai answers; the cycle of enshittification must go on to satisfy the shareholders

Oh no, if only someone would have know this would happen in advance, like, anyone at all, like literally any dumdum you'd ask, for example. Oh no...

This is almost correct. In reality, rich people inside Google got richer. That was their sole goal. That is all they wanted.

Because look, we all told everyone that the AI bubble was in fact a bubble, and that Google was destroying its own search engine, which of course would hurt them later. On the one hand, you could argue they didn't believe us. But I think they didn't hedge their bets because they didn't care either way.

Fuck the company's future if you can get rich now, am I right? Never underestimate human greed.

they freaked out after they couldnt scrape more data from reddit, because they wernt producing anymore, because reddit is infested with AI BOTs, and regular spammers. actual users who generated content have long banned or lurking now.

Will magically undo itself somehow in a week but still fun to look at for now.

You know, for a moment I thought i was going to get sick of all the "AI blew up in this company's face" headlines, but I dont think i will.

Google spent decades telling publishers to create quality content, then built a machine to read it aloud without sending anyone to the source. Now it's shocked that the machine makes less money. Congratulations: they've invented a search engine that eats both its suppliers and its own business model.

Here's the updated scoreboard of AI-pilled promises - and what became of them:

1. AI is going to make cost big money for AI-first companies.
2. AI is going to make employees more productive wade through tons of generated slop instead of doing actual work.
3. AI is going to solve all of humanity's problems - cancer, global warming, all that jazz! exacerbate humanity's problems by gobbling up resources on an unprecedented scale.

Turns out reducing peoples expose to their core advertisement business while burning millions of tokens to produce a summary, not the best business decision they have ever made. But what do you expect of MBA's that praise Jack Welch like a God.

They got what they deserved. Taking into consideration that Chinese AI companies are loosing heavily in the stock market - I am certain that it is time for the US as well. I bet that within two weeks from US elections AI companies will be at least 20-30% lower than today.

They're just going to be a front page of ads now.