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

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788 points jsheard | 1 comments | 31 Jan 25 21:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.689s | source
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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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timoth3y ◴[31 Jan 25 23:31 UTC] No.42893714[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

That's certainly part of it.

However, at this point I think a lot of it is a kind of emotional sunk-cost. To stop now would require a lot of very wealthy and powerful people to admit they had personally made a very serious mistake.

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1. munk-a ◴[31 Jan 25 23:35 UTC] No.42893757[source]▶
It is also possible that we're just in the realm of pure speculation now - if you look at Tesla and NVidia both their valuations are completely imaginary and with the latter standing to benefit a lot by being shovel sellers (but not that much) and the former seeing an active decline in profitability while still watching the numbers go up.

It may be less that people are unaware of the speculative bubble but are just hoping to get in and out before it pops.