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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: 0s | 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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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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wilg ◴[01 Feb 25 00:16 UTC] No.42894142[source]▶
It's interesting how we can frame "potentially automating tasks" in the most sinister conceivable way. The same argument applies to essentially all technology, like a computer.
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ADeerAppeared ◴[01 Feb 25 01:50 UTC] No.42894831[source]▶
> The same argument applies to essentially all technology, like a computer.

Why yes, it does.

Even setting aside that most AI hype: Yes, automation is in fact quite sinister if you do not go out of your way to deal with the downsides. Putting people out of a job is bad, actually.

Yes. The industrial revolution was a great boon to humanity that drastically improved quality of living and wealth. It also created horrific torment nexuses like mechanical looms into which we sent small children to get maimed.

And we absolutely could've had the former without the latter; Child labour laws handily proved it was possible, and should have been implemented far sooner.

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1. wilg ◴[02 Feb 25 00:02 UTC] No.42903939[source]▶
I'm not suggesting child labor laws are bad, I'm saying automation is good and not sinister. Automation inherently reduces labor, which can inherently lead to someone not needing to work a job that is now automated. That we want to protect people from suffering doesn't mean we should be suspicious of all new technology because we can imagine a way someone might lose a job.