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autoexec ◴[] 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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1. scarface_74 ◴[] No.42894864[source]
What choice does Google have? Google search is such a shit show now that I use ChatGPT to do any complicated web search. The paid version has had web search for over two years now.

Google couldn’t just keep ignoring it. I do wish it were an option instead of on by default - except for searches they can monetize

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2. notpushkin ◴[] No.42894886[source]
Could they... improve their search results?
3. ikt ◴[] No.42894906[source]
how does chatgpt paid compare to perplexity.ai ?
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4. scarface_74 ◴[] No.42895024[source]
I just used perplexity.ai. The interface is janky and it looks like it just does search.

ChatGPT has image generation, you can upload word docs, images and PDFs and it has a built in Python runtime that it uses to offload math problems to.