• @selfA
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    553 months ago

    But don’t worry! Google’s AI summaries will soon have ads!

    dear fuck, pasting ads onto the part of Google search that’s already known to be unreliable and annoying at best seems like a terrible idea. for a laugh, let’s see if there’s any justification for this awful shit in the linked citation

    Ads have always been an important part of consumers’ information journeys.

    oh these people are on the expensive drugs huh

    • @OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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      363 months ago

      It’s going to be so much worse than pasting ads if it ever actually works.

      Rewriting the search results with LLMs let’s you seamlessly mix the adverts into the text people are trying to read… That’s why I need to sip a refreshing glass of coke zero™ when I’m contemplating the collapse of the internet into pure advertising drivel.

      • @sc_griffith
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        53 months ago

        if there was ever a reason for going full ted kaczynski and enjoying the crisp taste of coke zero™ that would be it

      • @SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        Yeah, people who want a recipe for anything will get all the paying companies shoehorned in. To a point your result doesn’t even match with your question, but at least it recommended you to pour some Brawndo™ into your cake mix.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      143 months ago

      dear fuck,

      i saw this first and immediately guessed the poster correctly

      • @selfA
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        103 months ago

        me visually: morning meeting poker face, unfireably cheerful when called on

        me internally: dear fuck,

        • David GerardOPMA
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          103 months ago

          I have long written those sort of internal business emails by first writing the “RIGHT THEN YOU FUCKER,” version then euphemising it

          • @froztbyte
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            123 months ago

            sometimes I even have to write/edit these outside of mail client, just in case

          • @V0ldek
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            43 months ago

            Shout out to my senior teammate at Microsoft who sanitised my comments for external consumption.

            We’d have a group chat with some folks from another team, they’d say something stupid, so I’d private message my teammate “jesus fucking christ what the fuck are they talking about I swear to god those fuckers don’t read any docs we send them I’m going to print them out and staple them to their bloody foreheads” and he’d laugh and then post “Hey, thanks for your comments, we discussed this previously here [attachment], but we can go over it again on our Wednesday meeting, cheers”.

            I swear he was the only reason I wasn’t fired and forcefully escorted out of that building.

    • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      143 months ago

      Wow

      Also this:

      is great. It should be taught in schools. When you have a problem, buy the first thing you see on your screen for a solution.

      PS (O/T): anyone know of an easy tool to do screen recordings like that for non-evil purposes?

        • @froztbyte
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          13 months ago

          yeah it presents hyooj on my laptop screen, bigger than display port

    • @V0ldek
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      93 months ago

      Wait, are those people so fucked in the head they genuinely tricked themselves into thinking users… Like ads?

      • @selfA
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        93 months ago

        I swear every VP of Marketing at ShitCorp on mastodon shows up with that exact take in every adblocker thread. some of them follow it up with “…and the modern web wouldn’t exist without ads”, which is how you know they’re on the expensive drugs — these marketing geniuses haven’t noticed the fediverse’s got a pretty fucking dim view of the modern web as a whole

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      83 months ago

      I think people will stop using AI if it has ads. People like LLMs because search engines return a bunch of Amazon affiliate link spam articles as the top hits under their own sponsored results which are also spam articles. Something that gives a straight answer is preferable even if it is often confidently wrong. If they put ads in the AI it removes basically the one thing it does better.

      Ads have always been an important part of customers’ information journeys.

      Yeah; the fucking hazards obstructing the path to the destination.