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

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.

Billions of dollars are being spent on very useful AI.

You just notice the shitty ones, but people on HN thinks that's the norm for some reason.

Is the "useful AI" technology any different from this slop? If not then I fear that's wasted money as well. Which I think is the reason this stuff keeps getting shoehorned in. They invested money in training and equipment all of which is depreciating far faster than it has returned value.

I strongly doubt this "dichotomy AI" theory.

That's demonstrably false unless you believe millions of people are spending their own money every month for useless tech.

I don't know how a thinking person can use this technology and not see the possibilities it opens up.

>unless you believe millions of people are spending their own money every month for useless tech

that's a hot take! A classic "Eat shit! A million flies can't be wrong.". really made me smile :)

BILLIONS of people are spending their own money for useless tech, simply because they fear of missing out.

Thinking person can see it is generating text from the input query – which is useful of course – but not dramatically useful

It's dramatically useful for millions of people who are now much more productive than they were 3 years ago, including the programmers who have 10x'd their output.

Your superiority complex is nothing new... anytime new technology emerges, there's an old crochety class that thinks it's a fad. It's always people arrogant enough to believe they know the world better than everybody else.

And no, billions of people aren't spending money on tech purely because of FOMO. That's just nonsense.

You really like to shift things into personal attacks, huh?

"It's dramatically useful for millions of people who are now much more productive than they were 3 years ago, including the programmers who have 10x'd their output." - anecdotally

Your productivity cult is nothing new, anytime new quantity multiplier emerges, there's a freshman manager class like you who thinks quantity>quality. It is obvious from your comment since more productive and 10x output are the only things you praised there.

It's always people arrogant enough to believe they are riding the right hype-train, and everybody else is left behind.

Lol okay buddy. That's why there are literally millions of people spending money every month and upgrading because of how useful this is. But there's always some big brained ape on hacker news who thinks they know better and everyone is just riding the hype train.

Nearly half of Google engineers' outputs are coming from AI generated code, but you obviously know better than all of them.

Millions of people spending money is not an indicator how useful something is.

"Nearly half of Google engineers' outputs are coming from AI generated code" – let's take a look at the results: 30 discontinued products for the past 3 years, and just 1 new product: Gemini, which got it's glorious 10% market share. Now that's a productivity monster.

Google is such a successful company now: they released 1 new product which didn't even surpass the microsoft chatbot in market share, and people are adding "fucking" to searches in order to get adequate search results. Great growth, was definitely not possible without AI!

Totally. And where do you work that's so much more succesful? lol

No, millions of people smarter and more succesful than you TELLING you it's useful is what makes it more useful. But when you're this arrogant it'll never register.

Like I said, this is nothing new. It's like the arrogant boobs who thought smartphones were just a fad. Or the famous HN commenter who said Dropbox was pointless.