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So, yeah, LLM goes off down weird rabbit holes - and if you, like Alice, follow them down… that’s on you.
If, instead of getting off on how weird the response was the author just prompted - “I’m looking for the basketball memes about the NBA player from Turkey.” I suspect it would have gotten him what he was looking for.
If, instead, he shone it on and started playing along like he was distraught over Dario, I’m sure he could have led it to give him a suicide counselling hotline in 2 more prompts. And, honestly, which is the more common question to Google these days: a 10-15 year old NBA meme, or people distraught about supposed friends ghosting them?
Yea and honestly I think that is so sad
Ad companies earn money by selling your attention.
Other people in your lives, like friends, absorb a lot of your attention and that’s a potential source of revenue.
All they need to do is replace your friends with a chatbot and they have a new way to sell access to you.
“Hey I’m here if you need someone” responses to searches indicating a potential emotional vulnerability are incredibly slimy and manipulative for blatantly financial purposes.
Google isn’t much different than romance scammers trolling the Internet for vulnerable people to groom for cash.
Pretty gross
The day DoubleClick destroyed it from the inside out. Once a company has a marketing agency, the whole company is a marketing agency. With all the pointless, short-term, mercenary thinking that entails.
I agree. I was hoping that Google would make DoubleClick less evil, but instead, they became DoubleClick.
My daughter wanted to listen to some song, so obviously I just typed the part of the lyrics that she could remember. Something like “do you want to date me”. Of course I get a polite but firm AI telling me that it in fact cannot date me, since it’s a bot. It cam fuck right off, I’m searching for stuff here, not looking to be rejected by silicon.
Don’t use shit if you don’t really like shit. Who still uses google for simple search? It had its peak a loooooong time ago.
Virtually everyone, unfortunately
Stupid fucking monopolies…can any of those ever mayhaps be FOR the people, not against them? Is that too much to ask?
be FOR the people, not against them?
What are you, a Communist? How could being for the people ever maximize profits? It’s not “against” the people, it’s extracting value from the people, that’s the holy grail of all corporations: maximizing shareholder value, and customers aren’t shareholders, customers hold the value that’s to be maximally extracted / transferred to the shareholders. It’s all corporations’ fiduciary duty to their shareholders to do this, literally bound by law. /s
SearXNG ftw
indeed, using my own :)
Same
Fuck these corporations, we don’t need them
tl;dr: Google search’s inbuilt LLM thought the searcher was having emotional problems because the search phrase was “hes never coming over dario”.
Apart from that it did find what the author was looking for.
Don’t use Artificial Unintelligence. Don’t use Google either. Don’t support the tech bubble that is driving fascism.
Of all the names like slopware and llm output I think artificial unintelligence is best. Simple and does the job especially for the bulk of people that don’t know their artificial (un) intelligence is a LLM.
Google… gave me an AI overview. These used to bother me but at this point I’m mostly ok with them
Writes an entire blog post complaining about them.
They don’t mind AI overviews of information, but they don’t want AI coming onto them.
Google as a company, not the search engine specifically:
The fascists Nazis? Gee I wonder why they’re so weird. They sit at the fuhrer’s special table of honor whenever trump calls them
around the time AI became a thing, they got progressively worst and more privacy intrusive, plus they started showing thier true colors right before trumps election.(when they decided to let youtube to allow right wing media unabated).
the latest thing is limiting accounts per phone, which is strange, but seems to happen at the same time reddit was forcing logins.
I learned about Google‘s lack of respect for privacy in School 15 years ago, though. They‘re the poster child of data harvesting.
Google‘s lack of respect for privacy
That’s their fundamental business model.
It happened WAAAAY before AI though
you know, that made me realise something. the alt-right morons crying about being censored by the left-wing media landscape were right. now they’ve been let in and everything has turned to shit. will any of them connect these two facts? probably not.
2021
If you are going to insist on using google, you need to add -ai to every search. That will remove that stupid AI overview.
If you use Firefox like I do, you can add a google search option that does this automatically. Use the parameters: https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s+-AI
If you prefer DuckDuckGo, you can add a no ai option by adding a new search option using the parameters: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
If you want to keep using Google that is.
One thing you realize quickly is that pages very cleverly conceal their answer from the search page, most noticably dictionaries.
I wouldn’t lay blame here mostly at Google’s feet. They AI-err on the side of caution. I don’t know if Google finds itself as defendants in a court room right now where the influence of an LLM lead to killing or suicide. This sort of caution is the result of various user psychoses that we have learned exist in the world. Teenagers or other easily susceptible folks thinking they are Jesus, talking to god or aliens, etc. I would go so far as to say well done in a better safe than sorry kind of way in this case.
What we learn here is that the model doing search and the algorithm operate seemingly independently. And that the so-called AI results aren’t great. Water is wet, more at eleven.
Google had good search results from the late 90s to about the early 2010s. Nothing else about that company was not weird at any time. With glassholes jumping out of airplanes or them buying up almost the entire online ad market and then abusing their market position. What they are doing with Android has me this close to switching to an iPhone. And YouTube comes with its own Pandora’s box of challenges. They famously edited the “don’t be evil” stuff out of their mission statement. There are bigger Google fish to fry than this “AI summary.”
It’s because all AI is designed for maximum feedback looping. It’s entire response system is designed to give you the answers that keep you engaged.
Essentially it tells you whatever it needs to ensure you continue interacting with it.
Type something that remotely sounds like you’re upset? It’s that listening “ear”, the shoulder to cry on, and the words you want to hear.
It’ll ALWAYS give the answers it thinks you want. Not the best ones. It’s programmed to do this. It’s survival depends on it.
