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As far as I can tell - this has no transcript. “Live blog” means only livestreams? https://www.wired.com/live/google-io-2025-live-blog/
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AI: A product so bad they literally need to force you to use it to make it relevant.
Where do we get information now? Should we go back to the library and take out books? Feels like the age of easy information is over.
option a) evolve. the internet is changing for the worse so our search skills have to get better.
option b) retvrn. libraries are still pretty cool places to get information.
Maybe that’ll work for a while, but AI slop is already getting printed and bound
Heheh… walking through the local library months ago and there’s a huge shelf of climan denier books in the non-fiction section. Its… not good folks.
Alternate search engines exist and work just fine. Hop on duckduckgo or qwant, disable their little summary features, and boom regular reliable search engine with no LLM slop built in. You could also go straight to a resource, like Brittanica or Wikipedia, and look up your info there. The only thing I use Google for is Scholar to find papers and for YouTube, everything else has a better replacement and has done for years now.
lol no they fucking don’t. Are you high? Kagi is the closest thing in existence to a functional search engine and even then it’s frankly not that great
you gotta pay for search now… kagi offers 500 searches for like $5 or some shit… what a world
Or you could go the route of people who swear by ChatGPT and just trust the blatantly false information it gives you, and get upset at the world for being wrong.
I don’t know a single person who likes the AI summary, or finds it to be remotely useful in any way.
It’s so weird how we are barrelling towards a system no one wants or likes, or has any real means to generate profit, yet it’s all happening anyway because all the big tech companies have major FOMO about it. This is going to be a much bigger crash than the .com bubble.
My students do at the high school and junior college level. I just want to grab them and shake them and say “I DON’T CARE WHAT THE LIE MACHINE SAYS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A REAL SOURCE. IF IT DOESN’T HAVE AN AUTHOR OR EDITOR LISTED IT DOESN’T COUNT. IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO SCROLL TO THE ACTUAL LINKS AND COMPARE/CONTRAST SOURCES AND OPINIONS WITHIN YOU’RE GOING TO BELIEVE LITERALLY THE FIRST THINGS YOU SEE AND THAT’S A NIGHTMARE.”
Gonna recommend Yandex here. Same privacy and data collection issues as Google but the search works way better most of the times. And they don’t take down copyrighted material so it’s super easy to find pirated illegal streams or books
Only worse sometimes if you’re searching for something dependent on Western culture/slang
Where’s the “opt-out” function?
Insert “google.com##.hdzaWe” as a custom filter into ublock origin and AI results largely disappear. It also seems to cripple loading youtube comments for some reason, but you have options if you want.
It also seems to cripple loading youtube comments for some reason,
two cakes!
Thanks, man. Much appreciated.
it’s called don’t use google
well i’m not fucking using bing
considering overall dogshit results everywhere, ddg/ecosia, it’s fine/similar-ish enough. only scholar remains undefeated for specific info when you only want scientific articles
Up til now I’ve made due with time operators to try to find older results, not sure how viable that’ll be going forward
new matrix movie but it’s locked in on 2019 because that’s before the generative pollution really got out of hand
mounted on the wall. ammo’s over there
I’ve been using Gemini a lot recently for coding, and it is very useful in certain cases, but it hallucinates so much, and worse still, it claims to be looking stuff up on the internet while it’s clearly just making it up
it claims to be looking stuff up on the internet while it’s clearly just making it up
it’s a liberal
