SpraynardKruger

@SpraynardKruger@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, especially when searching technical or niche topics. Since there aren’t a ton of results specific to the topic, mostly semi-related results will appear in the first page or two of a regular (non-Gemini) Google search, just due to the higher popularity of those webpages compared to the relevant webpages. Even the relevant webpages will have lots of non-relevant or semi-relevant information surrounding the answer I’m looking for.

  I don’t know enough about it to be sure, but Gemini is probably just scraping a handful of websites on the first page, and since most of those are only semi-related, the resulting summary is a classic example of garbage in, garbage out. I also think there’s probably something in the code that looks for information that is shared across multiple sources and prioritizing that over something that’s only on one particular page (possibly the sole result with the information you need). Then, it phrases the summary as a direct answer to your query, misrepresenting the actual information on the pages they scraped. At least Gemini gives sources, I guess.

  The thing that gets on my nerves the most is how often I see people quote the summary as proof of something without checking the sources. It was bad before the rollout of Gemini, but at least back then Google was mostly scraping text and presenting it with little modification, along with a direct link to the webpage. Now, it’s an LLM generating text phrased as a direct answer to a question (that was also AI-generated from your search query) using AI-summarized data points scraped from multiple webpages. It’s obfuscating the source material further, but I also can’t help but feel like it exposes a little of the behind-the-scenes fuckery Google has been doing for years before Gemini. How it bastardizes your query by interpreting it into a question, and then prioritizes homogeneous results that agree on the “answer” to your “question”. For years they’ve been doing this to a certain extent, they just didn’t share how they interpreted your query.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just coming from a civil engineering/construction perspective, the straight lines are probably more about alignment. In these kinds of buildings (and considering US zoning laws that require a certain amount of parking), sometimes the alignment is critical to ensuring the building, parking, and drive-through fit. Straight lines are easy to measure, draw, and check in the field. Not to mention the actual way these 3D printing concrete machines work. The ones I’ve seen online are on some kind of track, and these ones are no different. From the looks of it, they’re kind of set up like those cranes you see at shipyards: youtube.com/shorts/igQ9G_Brkl8

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thi’s i’s new’s to me. Can you give example’s of when its appropriate to use apostrophe’s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ceci n’est pas un rocher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was coming here to say this. Truly a disappointment that the Pentel Twist Erase GT is not included as a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me to my squadmates after my mom brings tendies to the basement [Day 92]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember being confused after being handed some wooden disposable spoons at a local screening about 7 years ago. The person handing them out explained it to me, and suddenly I started noticing how obvious the spoons were. I think I had watched the movie a handful of times before, but never really paid attention to the backgrounds unless it was one of the outdoors scenes that were obviously filmed on a soundstage.