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Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)

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The complete destruction of Google Search via forced AI adoption and the carnage it is wreaking on the internet is deeply depressing, but there are bright spots. For example, as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for. And that is to confidently serve its customers ideas like, to make cheese stick on a pizza, “you can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to pizza sauce, which comes directly from the mind of a Reddit user who calls themselves “Fucksmith” and posted about putting glue on pizza 11 years ago.

A joke that people made when Google and Reddit announced their data sharing agreement was that Google’s AI would become dumber and/or “poisoned” by scraping various Reddit shitposts and would eventually regurgitate them to the internet. (This is the same joke people made about AI scraping Tumblr). Giving people the verbatim wisdom of Fucksmith as a legitimate answer to a basic cooking question shows that Google’s AI is actually being poisoned by random shit people say on the internet.

Because Google is one of the largest companies on Earth and operates with near impunity and because its stock continues to skyrocket behind the exciting news that AI will continue to be shoved into every aspect of all of its products until morale improves, it is looking like the user experience for the foreseeable future will be one where searches are random mishmashes of Reddit shitposts, actual information, and hallucinations. Sundar Pichai will continue to use his own product and say “this is good.”

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

I'm just thinking of all the really dumb shit we all said on Reddit as satire. Oh I need to go search military meme stuff!

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

because its stock continues to skyrocket behind the exciting news that AI will continue to be shoved into every aspect of all of its products until morale improves,

Okay, I have to admit, this made me laugh. Definitely commentary, but still, a good read.

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[-] duffman@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

I Googled some extremely invasive weed(creeping buttercup) and Google suggested to let it be, quoting some awful reddit comment.

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[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

That's a great read if you are only trying to film a commercial or promotion and no one is going to eat it. But then it doesnt matter if its non toxic i suppose.

At least i remember a video a long time ago, perhaps on an episode of how its made, that white glue is used to help get the stretchy cheese pull

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For example, as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for.

You don't have to pay anything to train on the wisdom of the crowd on Fediverse!

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[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Imagine using the resources of a small country just to generate responses to questions that have the same reliability and verifiability of your stoner older brother remembering something he read online.

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[-] geekworking@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Just wait until they start scraping the chans

I expect it to create the next Qanon.

[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

At least this is not "Google Is Paying Lemmy $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Lemmings to Eat Glue" otherwise I would be wondering why Lemmy Admins are excepting huge wads of cash from tech giants.

[-] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago

You do realize that every posted on the Fediverse is open and publicly available? It’s not locked behind some API or controlled by any one company or entity.

Fediverse is the Wikipedia of encyclopedias and any researcher or engineer, including myself, can and will use Lemmy data to create AI datasets with absolutely no restrictions.

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[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

When do they announce a deal with 4chan?

[-] Chef@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Hey Google, when is Jenny available to meet up for kisses?

[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

That is a legit trick to use when making commercials for pizza and other chain restaurant food, but not for eating...

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