Once we can no longer search for answers… They will start charging for giving us … Edited answers
Dude I fucking hope every AI chatbot get put behind a paywall soon. Do you know how quickly these pointless AI assistants would die?
People will still pay for it because consumerism or smth.
That is the end game of AI. They are free now as they are in disruption and growth phase with lots of competition. But in a few years most will have gone bust or been acquired until only 2-3 remain. Society will become dependent on them, and then they will roll out expensive subscriptions.
„Then“ they will roll out expensive subscriptions???
ChatGPT already at $200/mo you don’t consider this expensive yet?The free tier still exists. Soon it will be infested with ads. But they will only make this shift after getting enough people hooked.
Yeah I was just pointing out that this comment made it kinda sound like $200 is not an expensive subscription
Yeah, 200 is a bit ridiculous
That’s why I think is important to find a way to “community” train models, so there’s always a free open source alternative.
or keep a place like lemmy free of bots, so we can exchange and search information still.
Unless we get Mad Max instead… I’m still really hopeful for mutually assured Destruction! Dystopian LamePunk isn’t a future I’m onboard with.
Exactly.
Don’t want AI on google?
Easy peasy just type -noai after your search string.
Don’t want to get hit in the face? Easy. Just say “Don’t hit me in the face” every time someone walks in the room.
There is no way that actually works. Its probably going to show me porn or something.
Edit: What the fuck ?! (it works)
Don’t want AI on your search?
Easy peasy just use Duck Duck Go.
Bonus: So many things but also no more captcha on every search because they don’t like you protecting your own privacy.
DDG is amazing. They do have the option of AI though with duck.ai. Their products are great. I may be a bit bias, I’ve been using it for 12 years.
Well Fackkk…
All that electricity ain’t free, and the TechBros sure don’t want to pay the light bill. It’s not good enough that LLMs and their successors be useful and successful. Unless they change the whole economy, lots of somebodies have been burning trillions of dollars.
Its effectively a stochastic ponzii scheme where instead of being spent they just turn the money directly into entropy to noise-up all knowledge. It might genuinely ha:e been more productive to light it all on fire.
Who uses Google in 2025?
IDK like 200 million people???
Why would I want a worse answer for money?
Marketing, that’s all it is. Companies know how to make ads convincing you that you need their product.
Too bad they have forgotten how to make good products.
This is by design in the current situation. Why make one good product when you can sell a mediocre product every year. Unfortunately everyone is doing this so you have no choice and zero competition.
Really? What apps in particular? Asking, because I have not come across “extra payment for unrequested AI” yet.
OneDrive: we are putting up the price of our family plan significantly.
Also one drive: look at all the new AI stuff we have added to your plan
(Also OneDrive: yes your 6 person plan is for sharing but you can’t share the new stuff we’ve added to your sharing plan)
Oh, ok. Sounds bad, sorry for you! - I am not using OneDrive. Neither paid or unpaid.
I am not either - anymore 😆. I have been running Nextcloud for years, but this was the push I needed to bring everyone on my OneDrive plan onto Nextcloud instead.
Google added a AI at the top of search results with a premium version that’s supposed to be better somehow.
If only it did, instead of just doing it
Hey man it’d be better than what we got now
It didnt say a swer that correctly.
