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  • Chrome browser will help you shop with AI

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 9 09:54:37 2024
    From the «fuck off, AI. fuck off, Chrome, fuck off Google» department:
    Title: Chrome will let you shop with “AI”
    Author: Thom Holwerda
    Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:00:18 +0000
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/140439/chrome-will-let-you-shop-with-ai/


    When you’re shopping online, you’ll likely find yourself jumping between multiple tabs to read reviews and research prices. It can be cumbersome doing all that back and forth tab switching, and online comparison is something we hear users want help with. In the next few weeks, starting in the U.S.,
    Chrome will introduce Tab compare, a new feature that presents an
    AI-generated overview of products from across multiple tabs, all in one
    place.

    Imagine you’re looking for a new Bluetooth portable speaker for an upcoming trip, but the product details and reviews are spread across different pages
    and websites. Soon, Chrome will offer to generate a comparison table by
    showing a suggestion next to your tabs. By bringing all the essential details — product specs, features, price, ratings — into one tab, you’ll be able to
    easily compare and make an informed decision without the endless tab
    switching.
    ↫ Parisa Tabriz[1]

    Is this really what people want from their browser, or am I just completely out of touch? I’m not at all convinced the latter isn’t the case, but this just seems like a filler feature. Is this really what all the AI hype is about? Is this kind of nonsense the end game we’re killing the planet even harder for?

    Links:
    [1]: https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-ai-features-august-2024-update/ (link)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 9 06:50:22 2024
    On 09 Aug 2024 09:54:37 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Imagine you're looking for a new Bluetooth portable speaker for an upcoming >trip, but the product details and reviews are spread across different pages >and websites. Soon, Chrome will offer to generate a comparison table by >showing a suggestion next to your tabs.


    Too many "reviews" are created by people with URL links to companies
    like Amazon/etc.
    ====================================================
    shop with AI

    The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of
    blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn
    and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to kyonshi on Mon Aug 12 12:44:28 2024
    On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 12:28:49 +0200, kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

    Nobody wants AI

    A search engine might be better with AI.

    If AI could summarize a topic in plain English, I would use.

    Students writing reports/etc. will become addicted to AI, just like
    they did with calculators (can't do math in their head, or on paper)

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Aug 14 11:02:56 2024
    On 2024-08-12, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 12:28:49 +0200, kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

    Nobody wants AI

    A search engine might be better with AI.

    If AI could summarize a topic in plain English, I would use.

    Students writing reports/etc. will become addicted to AI, just like
    they did with calculators (can't do math in their head, or on paper)


    How about an algorithm that takes a webpage that has been SEO-ified and enshittified beyond recognition and reduces it to the actual
    information? Example: get on a search engine and look for the recipe to
    make a martini. Your average webpage sharing a martini recipe is
    multiple megabytes of shit and 1000+ words. Give me an algorithm that
    reduces it to a three or four line recipe.

    It would be like feeding the lion its tail - forcing tech to eat tech.

    Gopher still works great. None of the cruft, because there's no money in
    it.

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Wed Aug 14 19:13:45 2024
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> writes:

    How about an algorithm that takes a webpage that has been SEO-ified and enshittified beyond recognition and reduces it to the actual
    information? Example: get on a search engine and look for the recipe to
    make a martini. Your average webpage sharing a martini recipe is
    multiple megabytes of shit and 1000+ words. Give me an algorithm that reduces it to a three or four line recipe.

    How's your perl? If you have a web server that groks cgi-bin running
    on localhost and a fetcher such as wget or curl, you can do this with
    a local home page and a cgi-bin perl script.

    Doesn't work for pages that rely for content on javascript but where
    js is peripheral, you can elide 90% or more of crap.

    Especially useful for pages you visit often (or would, were they not enshittified.)

    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 14 19:05:18 2024
    On 14 Aug 2024 11:02:56 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Your average webpage sharing a martini recipe is
    multiple megabytes of shit and 1000+ words.

    The good old days: inverted pyramid journalism

    "In general, news stories are organized using the inverted pyramid
    style, in which information is presented in descending order of
    importance. This allows the audience to read the most crucial details
    quickly so they can decide whether to continue or stop reading the
    story."

    This format started in telegraph days so if the full story was not
    transmitted, some of it would get through.

    Nowadays, this has been flipped.....one might have to sift thru
    several paragraphs or more to get the point/substance/etc.

    They just drag it out, and drag it out.....especially where
    advertising is decked out. Hence, I suspect they are attempting to
    fetch more advertising kickbacks (money). Cocksuckers...

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Mike Spencer on Thu Aug 15 10:33:13 2024
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:


    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> writes:

    How about an algorithm that takes a webpage that has been SEO-ified and
    enshittified beyond recognition and reduces it to the actual
    information? Example: get on a search engine and look for the recipe to
    make a martini. Your average webpage sharing a martini recipe is
    multiple megabytes of shit and 1000+ words. Give me an algorithm that
    reduces it to a three or four line recipe.

    How's your perl? If you have a web server that groks cgi-bin running
    on localhost and a fetcher such as wget or curl, you can do this with
    a local home page and a cgi-bin perl script.

    Doesn't work for pages that rely for content on javascript but where
    js is peripheral, you can elide 90% or more of crap.

    Especially useful for pages you visit often (or would, were they not enshittified.)


    Another thing I do sometimes, is to use "reader mode". That also some
    times gets rid of garbage.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to kyonshi on Fri Aug 16 21:57:04 2024
    On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 12:28:49 +0200, kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

    Nobody wants AI.

    No laughing matter - how AI is helping comedians write jokes
    ...
    ...
    Comedians are increasingly experimenting with the technology to write
    scripts and brainstorm ideas, including Anesti Danelis. Earlier this
    year, the Canadian asked popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to write him a
    show.

    The result is what he has been performing throughout this summer,
    including at this month's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jll2k0gewo

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to kyonshi on Mon Aug 19 10:49:43 2024
    On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 12:28:49 +0200, kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

    Nobody wants AI.

    Donald Trump wants it:

    1. Donald Trump has stoked controversy by turning to artificial
    intelligence to push a bogus "Swifties for Trump" campaign, falsely
    claiming that the hugely popular singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, a
    Democrat, is backing his presidential run.

    2. Donald Trump posts AI-generated image of Kamala Harris speaking at
    DNC with communist flags
    ===================================

    PS:
    communist flags

    The many nice things Trump has said about Putin

    From businessman to US President, Donald Trump has repeatedly praised
    Russian President Vladimir Putin and, at times, echoed his point of
    view.

    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/17/trump-putin-praise-vstan-orig-me.cnn

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