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It's the next logical step after companies shoving AI into every corner of their own products regardless of whether their users want it - now they're paying oth
by jsheard 1y ago
It's the next logical step after companies shoving AI into every corner of their own products regardless of whether their users want it - now they're paying other companies to shove AI things into their products regardless of whether their users want it. Genuine user interest doesn't come close to justifying their insane valuations so they have to put their thumb on the scale by shoving it everyones face and then pretending that's the same thing.
See also: Googles AI summaries, which always get top billing so they can tally nearly every search up as an "AI engagement" regardless of user intent, and can't be disabled because that would get in the way of what's clearly the actual goal (to juice the AI metrics as hard as possible, user experience be damned).
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago>Googles AI summaries, which are pinned to the top of results and can't be disabled You CAN disable them. Append -ai to your Google search query. You're welcome. Edit: curious why are people downvoting a helpful workaround?
- rcoveson 1y agoHuge oversight by Google. Now they're going to have to invent some other way to indicate that you want to show hidden search results and inodes.
- input_sh 1y agoThat's not disabling it, that's a funky workaround that happens to work for now.
- Arnavion 1y agoWonder if DDG can be convinced to append that automatically for !g queries...
- blibble 1y agoI've got a violentmonkey script to redirect any google.com query to the non-AI version (unfortunately not on this PC else I'd paste it)
- dowager_dan99 1y agoor instead of searching for "best dog breeds for apartments" change it to "best f'in dog breeds for tiny s-hole apartments" - feels much more cathartic
- floren 1y agoYou can say "fucking" and "shit" on HN
- Evidlo 1y agoOr use this search URL: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%s&udm=14 https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%s&udm=... Firefox: `Edit > Settings > Search > Add`, then set as default This also disables Google's automatic product search mode that sometimes triggers.
- frabcus 1y agoBecause it isn't disabling them - that would be an option to actually disable them. Of course there are hacks round it, but ultimately Google want us to have the AI summaries, don't care about user choice, and the best course of action is to change search engine.
- fhd2 1y agoWell, there's -ai for Google. I do take some grim satisfaction from having Google pay for inference and then ignoring it though.
- enceladus06 1y agoJust like the Google+ days.
- babypuncher 1y agoThe corporate world is overrun with executives designing products that look like solutions to other executives but that don't solve any problems problems people in the real world actually have. It is funny seing xAI, the trash-tier AI company, integrate with Telegram, the trash-tier messaging service.
- andrekandre 1y ago> products that look like solutions to other executives but that don't solve any problems problems people in the real world intuitively, this looks like the root cause of enshitification imo... but idk maybe its something else...
- runlevel1 1y agoEnshitification is often a company-wide culture problem, but the fish does rot from the head. There are a variety of reasons why a company might begin to over-incentivize short-term gain (or high-stakes risk-taking) at the expense of customer happiness and possibly to the detriment of the company's long-term interests. For example: Growth stagnation, an existential threat, a pessimistic long-term financial outlook, bad reward structure, low customer regard, organizational infighting, low employee retention, etc. The sudden emergence of AI and volatile economy are triggering several of those for a boat load of companies. And, well, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
- luma 1y agoxAI has essentially zero market outside of twitter, and with recent system prompt shenanigans from Elon, I cannot imagine anyone signing up to pay for API hits when there's a non-zero chance your application will suddenly start complaining about white genocide. They're painted themselves into a corner with the product and Elon's increasingly erratic behavior, they now have to pay companies to use their service.
- bobxmax 1y agoWe've seen multiple companies in the last twelve months blast past any past benchmark of fastest growing company ever. It's become pedestrian for some of these companies to scale to $10m ARR in a quarter which has never happened before. "Genuine user interest doesn't come close to justifying their insane valuations" - classic HN copium
- hwillis 1y agoYou sound like a Madoff investor
- bobxmax 1y agoI don't think you know what Madoff did.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> We've seen multiple companies in the last twelve months blast past any past benchmark of fastest growing company ever. So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999
- bobxmax 1y agoNo, dot com companies were famous for soaring valuations that WEREN'T revenue generating. Learn your history.
- ryandrake 1y agoIt's absolutely wild and scary watching how much money is being spent on pushing AI down the unwilling public's throats. Nobody wants this. Yet we're hiring expensive AI researchers and developers, buying datacenters full of GPUs, and now paying "partner" companies, to deliver this thing that nobody is asking for. What in the world is going on here? What am I not understanding?
- theideaofcoffee 1y agoI think it’s probably as simple as some old fool on Sand Hill Rd got suckered into writing a check for this nonsense with promises of world domination by AI’s promised infinite profit with minimal cost. And to keep the whole charade going, everyone has to pretend that this will eventually see some returns otherwise the whole farcical system will come crashing down. We can only hope that happens and some correction rears its head. The end result being all of us suffers in some way for the greed of a handful.
- Disposal8433 1y ago> What in the world is going on here? What am I not understanding? I don't think you're wrong in any way. I've been in denial for the past few years because the world is going crazy with AI and politics. But it's actually very good for me because I'm shunning all that shit and I focus on local people and local problems more: taking care of the finances of a non-profit, being more available for my friends and relatives, solving actual problems that people may have, etc. Denial is great and it makes more active. The downside is that I now have the calendar of a CEO and less time for me, but I believe the world need some care and we all can do something about it by doing small stuff.
- overfeed 1y agoFOMO. Everyone is trying to landgrab as much territory as possible with the hope of piles and piles of money in the future. What looks like irrational exuberance to sceptics is a perfectly reasonable attempt to not miss out on the next "iPhone moment" by the believers.
- ryandrake 1y ago
- seanhunter 1y agoExample: Since this deal was cash + equity I wondered whether telegram has a public valuation. I searched google and got an AI summary saying that the market capitalization of TELEGRAM is $7.4767. That's dollars not billion dollars, because google's AI summary was referring to some scam coin which has a total marketcap of a big mac and fries plus or minus. It seems now to have updated to refer to the messaging app and _their_ (probably also scam)coin.