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[-] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 63 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't bullshit every. damn. time.

Like sure, when Linkwarden auto-tags my bookmarks, that's fine. Who cares if it uses an LLM under the hood.

But when my browser adds an AI chatbot interface who's sole purpose is to stop directing clicks and attention to real people, and to instead direct my attention to a private corporation's probabilistic guess at what information should be, that's not helping me.

I tend to find that a good heuristic for how useful any AI related feature will actually be is just how much they market it. The more they claim it will help you, the more likely it is to be crap. Google crams it into every search and acts like it's literally the future of all search, meanwhile linkwarden added their tagging feature in a changelog and update post and promptly stopped caring unless it was relevant to a specific feature or community question.

Guess which one is more useful to me. I'm sure it's really difficult to tell.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago

Duckduck go has been completely fucked by this.

Look up jessie combs (yes, yes i know, sic) and then click on image search.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 6 points 11 months ago

I had no idea Diddy broke running records. That's cray.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Huh? All I see pics of there are the Combs twins whose mom died of pneumonia while being completely healthy according to her other ex

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

In Firefox that "AI chatbot interface" is basically just a bookmark in a sidebar, when I last checked it out

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Google crams it into every search and acts like it’s literally the future of all search

I'm genuinely dreading the day that Google takes away the search results and just replies with the AI prompt.

I know it's on the horizon, as soon as they can figure out how to get ad revenue from it properly.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 36 points 11 months ago

We need to collectively refer to AI as Sparkle from now on.

[-] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 11 months ago

Tech glitter. Gets everywhere and you can’t get rid of it.

[-] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

I've used it only once... To create a pregnant couch... Some regrets.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

JD? That you?

[-] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Found it, was making fun of him in that conversation actually rofl

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don't you mean "rag-rets?"

[-] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

NO RUG-RETS

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Glittertech

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

That's already a rimworld mod.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 18 points 11 months ago

"I am disrespectful to accuracy!"

[-] grue@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

The only "nice indie software" is Free Software. Everything else is looking to abuse and exploit you as soon as you let your guard down, or will be eventually when it sells out to vulture capitalists.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Oh no, people want to be paid for their work, what a horror

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

people want to be paid for their work

There's multiple flavors of this, unfortunately.

Love to contribute money to a project I support.

Hate to have my favorite software suite acquired by a Big Tech company that pays some oversees software sweatshop to shove pop-ups in my face trying to sell me glitter icons.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but you don't contribute tens of thousands every year so if you're one of 3 contributors on a project so big it takes 100 hours of work a week to develop and maintain, that's not enough. The sad part is nearly nobody donates. And those who do, often do it one-off, not monthly. I'm guilty too. Most 100% unmonetized FOSS projects just don't have a stable revenue stream and to make it worse, the users can be real assholes, hounding the devs to work more or put someone else in charge to accept PRs quicker, etc.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

People want the means to survive, grow and live in comfort. Just because we live in a capitalist dystopia does not mean the current requirement to live is what we want.

If you have all of those and somehow cant find a passion that creates value i rather have you sit at home and do nothing because i have no expectation the work will be of any quality.

Of course you wouldn’t sit at home and do nothing because that would be boring and people with the means to be mentally and physically healthy expect more of themselves.

Point to the “dirty” jobs like swiping the streets and i’ll point to the volunteers doing a much better job keeping things clean then the career people. Passion and the inherent desire to make things better is everything.

All the important cyber security stuff is build on free software nowadays, because it is superior software in every possible way you can measure.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but with a big popup you can't close that's asking if you'd like to become a premium member.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

Based on these comments, I question everyone’s commitment to SparkleMotion.

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