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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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788 points jsheard | 6 comments | 31 Jan 25 21:20 UTC | HN request time: 1.067s | source | bottom
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autoexec ◴[31 Jan 25 23:08 UTC] No.42893484[source]▶
Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it.

It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity.

At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of employees out of work and allow companies to use the massive amounts of data they've collected about us against us more effectively. All the AI being shoehorned into products and services now are mostly to test, improve, and advertise for the AI being used, not to provide any value for users who'd rather have nothing to do with it.

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basscomm ◴[31 Jan 25 23:16 UTC] No.42893562[source]▶
> At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast amounts of employees out of work

It's this part.

Salaries and benefits are expensive. A computer program doesn't need a salary, retirement benefits, insurance, retirement, doesn't call in sick, doesn't take vacations, works 24/7, etc.

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1. dbcjv7vhxj ◴[31 Jan 25 23:32 UTC] No.42893725[source]▶
No it's not. It's because management is tone deaf and out of touch. They'll latch onto literally anything put in front of them as a way out of their inability to iterate and innovate on their products.

Throwing "ai" into it is a simple addition, if it works, great, if it doesn't well the market just wasn't ready.

But if they have to actually talk to their users and solve their real problems that's a really hard pill to swallow, extremely hard to solve correctly, and basically impossible to sell to shareholders because you likely have to explain that your last 50 ideas and the tech debt they created are the problem that needs to be excised.

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2. RajT88 ◴[01 Feb 25 00:25 UTC] No.42894219[source]▶
Today it is AI. Yesterday it was Blockchain.

Tomorrow it will be Agentic AI Blockchains.

I know what you are thinking: robots are coming for our jobs after that. Don't worry! Those AI robots will run on the Cloud.

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3. bee_rider ◴[01 Feb 25 06:10 UTC] No.42896121[source]▶
It also looks really appealing to do tasks you have a very shallow and dismissive opinion of. For example, a lot of managers and c-level sorts seem to think it will replace developers. I think it would be great at summarizing and passing up reports and generating plausible looking meaningless text—so, it looks like it could do most management type jobs, to me.

But, I must try to have a little bit of self awareness here: if we all think it can do the jobs we don’t understand and don’t think it can do the job we’ve got experience in, then maybe that just indicates that it isn’t really very good at anything yet.

4. SturgeonsLaw ◴[01 Feb 25 06:59 UTC] No.42896379[source]▶
But that's where my job is!
5. csixty4 ◴[01 Feb 25 19:42 UTC] No.42901461[source]▶
Can I control those robots using VR?
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6. RajT88 ◴[02 Feb 25 16:13 UTC] No.42909523{3}[source]▶
No. The VR revolution will never come.