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Dave Weigel

@daveweigel.bsky.social

Absolutely perfect that google search barely works anymore, but the homepage added a "create theme with AI" button. The fuck would I do that for

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Dave's not here, man!'s avatar Dave's not here, man! @davewithturbos.bsky.social
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To see if using it creates a singularity?

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Brad Westness's avatar Brad Westness @brad.westness.cc
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This is the result of leadership at the company mandating that everyone incorporate AI wherever possible

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Roger Ailes's avatar Roger Ailes @rogerailes.bsky.social
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To train your replacement at Buzzfeed to cover right-wing conventions.

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Dalton's avatar Dalton @daltonherriott.bsky.social
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I currently have less than 30 reading list/bookmarks before I can jump ship from Google

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Hunter's avatar Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social
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It's so you can specify that you want all search results rewritten into iambic pentameter, a feature that will make their product even more useless while sucking down more electricity than the entire Cleveland metropolitan area?

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web_rant's avatar web_rant @webrant.bsky.social
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"We're going to serve nothing but misinformation until November but you can make it look different with this tool we built to lay off all our designers"

bsky.app/profile/dave...

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tarhoosier's avatar tarhoosier @tarhoosier.bsky.social
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disenshittification of google
udm14.com
Not good if you want a google map reply to your query. Also not auto complete for query (maybe good?) Otherwise,
an anti AI response.

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Jaime N. Christley's avatar Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social
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I switched to Duck Duck Go as my default search engine in the early goings of this bullshit. It’s not flawless but I don’t miss Google Search one bit.

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's avatar @la-crystal.bsky.social
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I quit using google for search a long time ago after I kept getting garbage ad results for pages before finding anything useful.

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Mitch Solomon's avatar Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social
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That’s what Silicon Valley calls “creative”. It’s why they don’t need all that artist stuff anymore

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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They also added an extremely useful AI feature to Chrome bsky.app/profile/numb...

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John Annese's avatar John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social
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Don’t worry, newsrooms across the country will still throw money at SEO consultants tons of cash whether Google works right or not.

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Dan Fejes's avatar Dan Fejes @df1.bsky.social
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AFAIK my only experience with AI was messing with Dall-E a couple years ago. Then the novelty wore off. What's the life changing use case here?

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Joe Sweeney's avatar Joe Sweeney @jsweeney73.bsky.social
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Man, Google is going to be one of those sites you need some kind of extension to get it to work right, isn’t it?

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Wudang96 💜🌻's avatar Wudang96 💜🌻 @wudang96.bsky.social
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I tried to find a way to get rid of it but no. And HTFN not creating an AI theme.

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uosdwis r dewoh's avatar uosdwis r dewoh @thulcandrian.bsky.social
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The best way to understand generative AI is not as actual artificial intelligence but as the rest of Big Tech launching an assault against Google’s search hegemony. It’s made Google search into a garbage product at the same time as offering an absolute shit alternative

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patsy's avatar patsy @pattison.bsky.social
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change results to “web”

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Steve Zorowitz's avatar Steve Zorowitz @stevezorowitz.bsky.social
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I asked the Meta Instagram AI "How do I get rid of this AI query box?" and it couldn't tell me.

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Xenotropos's avatar Xenotropos @xenotropos.bsky.social
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...so you can stick it to those overpaid artists who gatekeep art and won't give me all the drawings of my Double-D-Cupped Submissive Amazon Princess OC I deserve for free. /sarcasm , because in this timeline who can tell anymore

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SwelterTheChef's avatar SwelterTheChef @swelterthechef.bsky.social
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Just tried an experiment and if you put '-AI' without the quotes then the search returns with no AI at the top.

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