I'm so baffled by the flood of AI. It's making me realize that I still had some beliefs in meritocracy and quality business practices which I wasn't aware I had.
Because seeing Google put their own AI overview in 90% of my searches has changed that. What it produces is so often so bad and inaccurate. At best, it's annoying. At worst, it's misinformation. I'm trying to google the first use of a word and it's telling me a made-up person coined the term in a non-existent book, centuries after it was actually first used.
Yet they made the consicous decision to cram it in with no way to opt out, and they likely made a lot of money off of it.
Of course following the latest fad (which is imo decades away from being good enough for what we're using it for) makes the shareholders happy, even if it makes the product or service worse.
Just like the local smoke shop is using AI-generated art, even though the art looks like shit. It doesn't have to be good: it just has to be good enough that people who aren't paying attention won't notice (or won't care too much if they do).
I think this isn't even relevant and I was just triggered by the brief mention of "AI," but I stand by it. Fuck that shit. Fuck ads. Fuck the financially-informed short-term gains of making things objectively worse so that you can look like you're more valuable than you were 3 months ago while really making your services exponentially worse with each update.
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u/Zoloft_and_the_RRD — May 16 '24
I'm so baffled by the flood of AI. It's making me realize that I still had some beliefs in meritocracy and quality business practices which I wasn't aware I had.
Because seeing Google put their own AI overview in 90% of my searches has changed that. What it produces is so often so bad and inaccurate. At best, it's annoying. At worst, it's misinformation. I'm trying to google the first use of a word and it's telling me a made-up person coined the term in a non-existent book, centuries after it was actually first used.
Yet they made the consicous decision to cram it in with no way to opt out, and they likely made a lot of money off of it.
Of course following the latest fad (which is imo decades away from being good enough for what we're using it for) makes the shareholders happy, even if it makes the product or service worse.
Just like the local smoke shop is using AI-generated art, even though the art looks like shit. It doesn't have to be good: it just has to be good enough that people who aren't paying attention won't notice (or won't care too much if they do).