I remember Google forcing a Google + down the throats of everyone who had a Google-related account such as a YouTube account. Then they started boasting about the record growth of their social media platform. I immediately knew that this was only a tactic to please their investors.

Years later they finally caught on with what as going on when someone published the usage data revealing that most of the traffic on Google+ didn't spend more than 5 seconds on the site. This meant that most of their "usage" was people who accidentally clicked on the wrong link or immediately left the moment they saw whatever they were interested in was on Google+

Reddit is doing the same thing by not deleting bot accounts to make it sound like the activity on the site is much greater than it actually is.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which is sad because the whole circles concept was actually nice.

[–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was very young when I last used Google+ and remember very little. What exactly differentiates circles from subreddits as a concept?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Oh it’s completely different. Reddit is phpBB v2. A forum/bulletin board.

Circles is closer to kbin. You could create ad-hoc circles for your friends which worked like labels. So you could post to that circle of friends without making it public to your circle of coworkers, for instance. You could also have communities which were essentially forums/public circles. And there was the microblogging aspect too.

[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

AI is hyped, so overly hyped. Just look how NFT shit jumped over to AI.

it can't do half of what they're promising. it's just tricking investors (not a bad thing) and the populance at this point (a bad thing)

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

I think the hype is warranted in terms of technological progress, it's just the way a lot of big corporations are using it is braindead and often anti-consumer.

It is technically doing exactly what it's supposed to do, but the people in charge at Google seem to have blatantly ignored one of the most important rules of programming: "garbage in, garbage out". They paid for shitpost-tier data, and now it's doing exactly what anyone with half a brain would expect it to do with that information.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was crazy for me seeing cooler master (yes, the PC cooler company) release new "AI thermal paste". Its just regular-ass thermal paste with very average performance.

[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they did what? 🤣

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yes

I will add that cooler master claims it's a translation error and a better translation would be "AI Suitable Thermal Paste" which is almost just as stupid.

[–] Titou@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Im not scared anymore of AI, not since the one who's supposed to take my job can't even spread non-biased basics facts