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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 6 months ago

jayyysus stuck my nose in a google search for the first time in a long time and the fucking thing is unusable now

[-] Cendana@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

More and more species of human made services are falling victim to this mysterious illness many call enshittification. There's no known cure, but is spreading rapidly among impacted populations.

[-] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure AI speeds up the enshittification process. I used to think all the sci-fi AI taking over the world stories were unrealistic dystopias, but it seems like the people in charge thought they were something to aim for. Things like robo-debt should have made us take a step back and think a bit about how we want to use AI but we still seem to be going full steam ahead with a plan of deliberately putting AI algorithms in charge of everything.

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

It's especially ironic because what we currently have isn't truly AI, it's basically a glorified algorithm capable of paraphrasing

[-] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

Pretty much, but the scary thing is that it is learning what people want to hear and in the process often amplifies human bias. It picks up on things like racism and uses that in its decisions. Then those decisions go into the records that AI systems are being trained on, entrenching the biases more and more over time. Because the processes are pretty much invisible it is hard to do anything to stop that from happening. Then we have this weird idea that computers are somehow impartial and should be trusted over human decision makers, and we are using AI to make decisions on things like who to shortlist for employment, who to flag for closer scrutiny in immigration, what level of aged care someone receives - all major life changing things!

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Nah, google fell to good old human stupidity before AI even got a blink. Fucking capitalism

[-] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yup, I use duck and that uses google , so 🤷‍♀️ Is Bing usable ? How can bing be worse is the question.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

raw googs is worse than duck duck

[-] just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

I would keep wondering whether I'd stumbled on some scam/phishing site given how assaulted I felt by the disgusting presentation. One of my work laptops is locked down tight so nothing I can do there, but I'm going to be looking for addons to deshittify goog when I have time. Absolute trash

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Just don't use them. They gain you nothing

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