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The complete destruction of Google Search via forced AI adoption and the carnage it is wreaking on the internet is deeply depressing, but there are bright spots. For example, as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for. And that is to confidently serve its customers ideas like, to make cheese stick on a pizza, “you can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to pizza sauce, which comes directly from the mind of a Reddit user who calls themselves “Fucksmith” and posted about putting glue on pizza 11 years ago.

A joke that people made when Google and Reddit announced their data sharing agreement was that Google’s AI would become dumber and/or “poisoned” by scraping various Reddit shitposts and would eventually regurgitate them to the internet. (This is the same joke people made about AI scraping Tumblr). Giving people the verbatim wisdom of Fucksmith as a legitimate answer to a basic cooking question shows that Google’s AI is actually being poisoned by random shit people say on the internet.

Because Google is one of the largest companies on Earth and operates with near impunity and because its stock continues to skyrocket behind the exciting news that AI will continue to be shoved into every aspect of all of its products until morale improves, it is looking like the user experience for the foreseeable future will be one where searches are random mishmashes of Reddit shitposts, actual information, and hallucinations. Sundar Pichai will continue to use his own product and say “this is good.”

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 142 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

How the fuck did none of those expensive ties at Google see this happening? Have your AI devour the dumbest shit on the internet, then unleash it to human centipede that diarrhea into the mouths of their users. "Elite" is a fucking joke, ya'll are just as fucken stupid as the rest of us.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 105 points 5 months ago

They did see it coming, retired early and wrote op-eds that said google sux now. And the billions still roll in.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is our cyberpunk dystopia.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cheese pizza, extra glue on the side.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I also prefer to dip my pizza in warm glue.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

there's always room for HOOV-S

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

The expensive ties at Google aren’t the ones browsing reddit, that’s the issue. Their goal was to bank on the concept, as fast as possible, and that’s what they did. The consequences are for the poor people to figure out

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 5 months ago

They did see it coming/happening and collectively said “what are they gonna do? Take their business elsewhere?”

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

Just as dumb? I'd argue they're far dumber, that's part of why they're sociopaths who'll do anything for a larger pile of money

[–] applepie@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They are but they own you, me and everything else hence why they are elite... And we are the dirty poors

Sucks to suck, git gud

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I'm fucken trying but there's no fucken iframes. I've been playing Sekiro for months to prepare.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I mean, Twitter is the dumbest shit on the internet. But Reddit gets close sometimes!

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

Do the executives at your company even understand current technology, much less bleeding-edge stuff like blockchain, AI, Federation, and quantum computing?? Ours sure don't. Same with our politicians. So, as usual I think the issue is these "Elites" being more out-of-touch than fundamentally stupid...