I never buy gas at BP or Exxon. Ever. Smart phone though? That’s required for my job.

Who would do such a thing??

I don’t think I would agree that just because something is public that it’s a public forum. I feel like the public has to own it as well. I looked it up and maybe it’s because I predate social media by rather a lot, but I think of it in the classical sense:

Public forums are typically categorized into three types:

1. Traditional Public Forums: Long-established spaces like parks or sidewalks, where people have historically exercised their rights to free speech and assembly.
2. Designated Public Forums: Areas that the government intentionally opens up for public expression, such as town halls or school meeting rooms.
3. Limited Public Forums: Spaces opened for specific types of discussions or activities but with certain restrictions on the subject matter or participants.

The important factor being public ownership of the forum. I will concede that it has colloquially come to include public social media, but I think it’s important to distinguish that it’s not really the same thing at all as has been discussed through most of our history.

Food for thought. I just think calling them public forums attaches too much importance to a profit seeking endeavor.

I think the process of explaining what you want to an AI can often be helpful. Especially given the number of times I’ve explained things to junior developers and they’ve said they understood completely, but then when I see what they wrote they clearly didn’t.

Explaining to an AI is a pretty good test of how well the stories and comments are written.

Something something sharks?

lol. You were blocked because they didn’t like your comment was getting upvotes? Idk, buddy. Good riddance, I’d say. I understand about the lack of content, though.

Yeah. My sympathies lie with OP, but communities should be able to unapologetically curate their vibe.

You’re not going to out-compete the sociopaths if you’re a saint. That’s a reality.

I’m not a fan of Hitler Steve Jobs, but I am a big fan of the guy who killed Hitler Steve Jobs.

Having used it a couple of times… I’m not seeing it. It’s the same ChatGPT that talks about everything like it’s a lecture. I haven’t tried to jailbreak it into hot girlfriend AI or anything, but it seems like that would feel a lot more awkward in voice chat than text.

Look, just cut him out of the loop and go yell at a big pile of cocaine and meth for all the good it will do.

I think overall it’ll never be able to create quality entertainment.

But Ow! My Balls! isn’t quality entertainment. I’m sure it can create all kinds of clips of things smashing into groins for ultra low-brow entertainment. Probably today.

So you could just ask it for anything and it could make it up?

“Google, show ‘Ow! My Balls!’”

Of course they are.

What about… hear me out here… AI-chain. I think this has legs!

It’s Yahoo! all over again, but even less relevant.

I’m warning Google that Google Chrome may soon be disabled on my devices.

“… brought to you by Carl’s Jr.”

Very well said. I mean I think the internet is kinda garbage to begin with due to all the advertising and SEO junk that makes everything unreliable in the first place. We wouldn’t need AI in the first place if we could just find the information we need.

Also there’s a fair bit of effort going in to making local LLMs. I haven’t seen that they are as good, but they might be good enough. But at any rate, there isn’t any incentive to put knowledge on the internet any more because there’s no fame and glory or money in being part of a massive data set.

The main benefit of AI search is to strip away all the bullshit advertising and SEO spam page garbage that makes regular Google such an unreliable mess. Step two of AI search is to find a way to get AI to spit out advertising making it just as unreliable and spammy as regular Google.

Just take your fucking billions of dollars and stop trying to make everything shittier, Google.