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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjI0Q05IV0dlS3EiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODk2NDkwL2dvb2dsZS1yZXBsYWNlLW5ld3MtaGVhZGxpbmVzLWluLXNlYXJjaC1jYW5hcnktY29hbC1taW5lLWV4cGVyaW1lbnQiLCJleHAiOjE3NzQ0NzIwOTAsImlhdCI6MTc3NDA0MDA5MH0.3exwHWG6qdR5YeFLjzS1qvUy3tgfASQhbFZDTbHrkKE

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks I fucking hate it.

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      💯

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  • blah3166@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    so many better Google alternatives out there:

    • https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
    • https://ecosia.org
    • https://searx.space/ (pick any of the 50+ instances)
    • https://www.qwant.com/
    • https://www.startpage.com/
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    • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I love Ecosia because I love trees and will keep using them until I can afford kagi or something.

      But one thing that drives me through the wall.. If I search something in my native language, because I want results that are in my native language, google/bing (which ecosia uses) decides to translate reddit posts for me and Ecosia slaps them to the top of the results. Its rather annoying.

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    • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t forget Kagi! (though it isn’t technically comparable to the others since it’s a paid, but without ads one)

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  • imjustmsk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What the fuck are we supposed to do when the services we use are monopolies which actively seeks to destroy its competition as well as enshittify itself to a point its unusable :|

    Time to start self hosting. 

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    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Time to start self hosting

      There is simply no usable self-hosted search engine. There are some projects like Yacy or Searxng, but they do not have their own index. And having your own self-hosted index is kind of impossible because you need to save the whole of the web on your own devices to be able to search it.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Time to start self hosting.

      The time was 10 years ago.

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    • Stiggyman@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And pirate. Steal anything they try and sell to you

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      • Mondez@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Point of order, if you mean pirate as in infringe copyright, that isn’t stealing.

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ten year ago there were still things we could have done to stop google. now is too late…

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  • Nobody@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Techbro feudalists are all in on AI. They promised it would replace the human workforce and got initial investments and repeated support from money that should have been smarter then that, but the allure of firing all their workers proved too strong.

    Now, they’re sitting on a trillion dollar house of cards. They’ll continue to fail upward. The correction will be delayed as they all move money between each other to cover bad investments.

    At least Dutch tulips provided actual value. They could be planted and grow to be something real. LLM “AI” was always a scam.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      repeated support from money that should have been smarter then that

      Why would you think that? Look around, everything humanity does is absurd

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok wait… Can I use AI to change clickbait headlines into actual summaries of articles, without hyperbole, or people getting “slammed”? I am sure googles goal is only to create more clickbait, but if there was a way to do the opposite, that would be the first good use of AI I’ve seen.

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    • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, friend of mine did that as a hobby project 8ish years ago. You can do that with just a small self-trained language model.

      So, with AI as in the current RAM-sucking, earth-boiling monstrosities that are being pushed? No, it’s not a valid use case for that AI because it was already solved.

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      • Ebber@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There was a story a few years back where a Danish guy made an extension to “Unbait” headlines on the particularly egregious news sites here. Of course they complained, i believe on grounds of copyright infringement, and I think they sued the guy.

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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Hey, we got this new invention that kinda works if you don’t stress it too much, so we don’t really know what to do with it, but it’s hype so we must include it somewhere prominently. Ideas?”

    Seems like the dumbest way of using something dumb. Like reinventing the wheel, only it’s “intelligent” now.

    “But we already have headlines?”

    Of course that does not address the economical/political conspiracies involved here.

    AI is a scurge on humanity & our environment, and so is Google. Use other search engines.

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  • org@lemmy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you use anything Google has touched, you’re an idiot.

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    • thethrilloftime69@feddit.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Man how the hell are we supposed to degoogle so fast. I literally only became aware that they sucked like 2 years after them being cool for most of my life. Getting rid of gmail is going to be tough. There literally isn’t a service the equal of YouTube or Gmail.

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      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Snowden was in 2013, bro.

        Use a client for video content like Grayjay (gets rid of the ads too).

        Look at Tuta Mail or Proton Mail as viable privacy focused alternatives.

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      • Daryl76679@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve found ProtonMail to be pretty nice. Easy to import your mail into too. YouTube has been hard though. PeerTube is cool but rather small (feel free to ask my any questions about it though). Ideally we’d be using stuff like Nebula and Patreon to support creators directly, but you can at the very least use a fronted to minimize contact with Google.

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      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        at my work, one person decided to start an email group to connect everyone for after hours activities…

        only 2 people out of 20 were non gmail accounts

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      • forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Email might actually be one of the easiest to move off of, thankfully!

        There’s plenty of stuff out there, both free and paid. You can even use your own domain if you have an extra $15 or so a year. A lot of the paid options let you use your domain with them (and then if you ever need to change providers, you can keep your email address). And you can use both webmail and actual mail apps.

        Youtube though… yeah, there aren’t really any good alternatives for that.

        – Frost

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      • lcimino2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There are alternatives to Gmail. I’d probably list out such services as Yahoo/AOL (I personally use the AT&T branded version of this service) and Hotmail (now known as Outlook.​com), but instead I’ll just tell you that you can enter a query like “free email provider” in your web search provider of choice and find several perfectly viable options.

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      • org@lemmy.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They have been evil for over 20 years. What are you on about?

        There are many email providers. Like… thousands. Personally, I use Zoho.

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