google search got dumb on purpose, a whistleblower called it out - if you spend longer look on the search pages they get more “engagement” time out of you…
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sartalon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Google has gotten so fucking dumb. Literally incapable of performing the same function it could 4 months ago.
How the fuck am I supposed to trust Gemini!?
lightsblinken@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was fucking irked when I wanted to use Hey Google to add something to my grocery list. I had switched to Gemini not realizing its scope, and suddenly Gemini was needing voice permission then some other seemingly unrelated, unnecessary permission (can’t recall exactly but something like collaborative documents) to add to my grocery list. Fuck that. Then it seemed very difficult to find the setting to switch back to Google assistant, but I eventually found it.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I find this current timeline so confusing. Supposedly we’re going to have AGI soon, and yet Google’s AI keeps telling you to stick glue on pizza. How can both things be true?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the same reason why they removed the headphone jacks from phones. They don’t want to give you a better product, they want you to force youbto use a product, even if it’s worse in all aspects
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Whoa don’t come for Bluetooth like that. I like not having tangled wires and janky earbuds/headphones, especially because my clumsy ass used to snap the cords all the time by accident.
I do agree though that we should get the choice to use headphone jack or bluetooth. I also miss having a jack since I have to use my charging port to connect to my car radio…
grozzle@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There are some outlandish rumours that it’s possible for a device to have… both Bluetooth and a headphone jack.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Google just released a video generator that is a ball hair away from perfection. The hallucination rate from their latest models is <1% and dropping you just see cherry picked screenshots.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I don’t think image generators are really in the same category though. They’ll have their applications but they’re not going to be a fundamental change to society the way AGI will be.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s part of AGI and will be a massive shift. They are to video what punk was to music.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The physics and perspective are still horrible, every video makes me want to vomit my brain
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Only sometimes, with enough generations you can already make indistinguishable videos for the most part. You’re seeing these mistakes because it’s amateurs spending $100 not professionals spending $10k
Emi@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I assume it’s big tech that has this weird ai they try to sell while the scientists are using different ai for real useful stuff, like the protein something I heard. Or at least that’s what I’d like to believe.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A whole lot of useful stuff that wasn’t publicly labelled AI got relabeled to take advantage of funding opportunities. That doesn’t mean it is related to generative AI like LLMs and image generators though.