ai slop slopping over into ai slop.

[mopinko]

so someone shared a story on fb claiming jimmy kimmel did a tearful monologue about virginia guiffre, after reading her book. i figured it was bs, so i googled it. the ai summary reported it was true. the only results were fb posts.
so i searched youtube, where they always post his monologues. no sign of it. no credible news reports, but stupid ai thought it was true.
ai is gonna get dumber and dumber as it swallows it’s own bs.

[leftstreet]

1. I'm starting to Google everything by adding -ai

I just searched Jimmy Kimmel Virginia Guiffre

and then

Jimmy Kimmel Virginia Guiffre -ai

You're right, second result shows it's just facebook crap, which makes it easier for you to decide the validity

[mopinko]

2. yeah, i need to start doing that.

i keep a tab open to google all the bs my ‘friends’ share on fb. i’m about ready to shed some ppl cuz i’m tired of their gullibility, but then i figure if i do that, who’s gonna educate them?

i try to point out the tells. there’s been a spate of ‘some athlete/actor donated their entire bonus to x cause’. ENTIRE is the tell, cuz they dont even get that entire payment. 39% gets knocked off the top for taxes. there’s almost always some tell in the 1st para, but it sails rt over ppl’s heads.

if we dont tune up our bs detectors, and soon, we’re f’ing doomed.

[rog]

7. You can create custom search engines in both Chrome and Firefox.

Sort of technical DIY ...

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/google-search-no-ai-overview.html

Or you can do a search on 'udm=14 custom search engine' that will explain this in different ways.

Or ... you can use a browser extension.

List of Firefox extensions: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=udm%2014

List of Chrome extensions: https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/udm%2014

I also use an extension called GemiNope that prevents Gemini integration within the 'Google Workspace' ... Gmail, Docs, etc. It's available for both Chrome and Firefox.

[leftstreet]

9. Thanks!

Those are valuable

I don't de-AI searches for things like "what day do we turn back clocks" or "when is last frost in my zone" or "why are my cookies FLAT" or whatever. But everything else, news, history, opinion....

[rog]

11. Same here ...

I am *slowly* making friends with AI, although I still consider 'artificial intelligence' an oxymoron. It's convenient to automate specific tasks that would be a pain to do myself, but I tell it what to do. I use it to transcribe and summarize audio recordings of doctor appointments, for example, but I double-check for accuracy and proofread carefully ... it always makes mistakes, but I have to say it is getting better.

I have found Google's NotebookLM to be really useful. If I'm researching a topic I can link videos, audio reports and podcasts, pdf files, text files on my computer, web pages, etc. The tool does really well at pulling together reports and summaries based on all those sources, and you can query those sources as if you were using ChatGPT, except all the responses are based *only* on your source material ... no scouring the net. But this is assuming that I've already read or at least skimmed the material. It would be nearly impossible to absorb all that info on my own without taking intensive notes, especially if the topic is highly technical.

[Captain Zero]

3. I shed about 170 people on FB, down to 86 now

I got tired of bullshit from some of them, and wondering about others and how they could ignore so much.

[Iris]

4. What is even the point of the internet anymore?

It's all just alternate realities at this point

[mopinko]

5. it's rapidly turning to shit.

le sigh. it used to b so great.
i remember the days when we’d have du meetups. that died when a troll showed up in chgo. (library girl origin story.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. DU is internet. It has a point. . . . nt

[Iris]

8. It's literally the only place I regularly visit online.

[Torchlight]

10. It's points are dulled, it's sheen turned grimy

But, it's got porn and a giant buffet of fictional assertions to comfort ourselves with, so I guess it's here to stay until the Next Big Thing happens.