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[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hate Sam Altman almost as much as I hate Elon Musk. One person has destroyed much of the Internet, with the help of the others that are trying to keep up with him. Most of the things I love are being washed away in a deluge of generated noise. I'm going to go live in a cabin in the woods if this doesn't stop.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to go live in a cabin in the woods if this doesn't stop.

Me too.

I saw an online comment by a non-native English speaker that there are very few squirrels in Brazilian cities. That surprised me because I thought city squirrels were a worldwide thing. I told myself to pretend that google didn't exist because googling would only annoy me and give me shit. But I didn't listen to myself and I googled. And I googled. And I googled some more. I must have spent about 10+ minutes on what used to be a pretty simple sort of google search.

At one point google lead to me to a pointless Reddit thread with a stupid question and annoyed replies. The thread was 6 years old and it had 8 upvotes. I'm convinced at this point that google is actively destroying search so you do one of two things...

  1. Keep searching so google can serve up more and more and more ads even though I never see that shit because use ad blockers.

or ideally for google - eventually over time...

  1. You'll give up and read the garbage AI summaries. Which also keeps you on google.

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I did learn that squirrels were intentionally introduced to American cities. But that was about it.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the first one, there was a whole thing in 2019 where the ads org took over and started making search base their decisions on ad revenue.

It's hard to find the news story these days, here's one copy, not sure if it's the best

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think you can discount #2. Google wants a absolute max sized captive audience. Some people will happily eat the AI slop and stop there.

  1. Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one.

  2. Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary.

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https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/