• johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Meanwhile I’m down town I’m my city cleaning windows in office buildings that are 75% empty but the heat or ac is blasting on completely empty floors and most of the lights are on.

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      The HVAC does serve a purpose, it reduces the moisture in the building, which would otherwise ruin the building

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    Worse is Google that insists on shoving a terrible AI-based result in your face every time you do a search, with no way to turn it off.

    I’m not telling these systems to generate images of cow-like girls, but I’m getting AI shoved in my face all the time whether I want it or not. (I don’t).

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      I am trying to understand what Google’s motivation for this even is. Surely it is not profitable to be replacing their existing, highly lucrative product with an inferior alternative that eats up way more power?

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        Their motivation is always ads. The ai response is longer and takes time to read so more time looking at their ads. If the answer is sufficient, you might not even click away to the search result.

        AI is a potential huge bonanza to search sites, letting them suck up the ad revenue that used to goto the search results

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        They don’t want to direct you to the thing you’re searching for anymore because that means you’re off their site quickly. Instead they want to provide themselves whatever it is you were searching for, so you will stay on their site and generate ad money. They don’t care if their results are bad, because that just means you’ll stick around longer, looking for an answer.

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        To make search more lucrative, they’ve enshitified it and went too far, but for a short time there were great quarterly resukts. Now they’re slowly losing users. So they try AI to fix it up.

        It’s also a signal to the shareholders that they’re implementing the latest buzzword, plus they’re all worried AI will take off and they’ve missed that train.

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        You can also use alternatives like startpage and ecosia which use google results, I believe.

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          Both of which are probably training their own AI as middle men or stealing your search terms to tell Walmart what type of peanut butter you’re most likely to buy if they could lock it up on a plastic covered shelve.

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            Probably, but neither automatically opt into AI replies. Ecosia has an AI chat, but it doesn’t run until you go to it. Startpage has no AI option that I can see.

            Ecosia has the upside of planting trees depending on user search rate. Not sure how true that is, though. I prefer startpage either way. Startpage claims to be privacy first, and I’ve never received tailored results or ads.

            That doesn’t mean they don’t sell info. We can’t know that for sure, but it sure as hell beats using Google and it’s automatic AI searching.

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      Firefox has a plugin that blocks the AI results. It works pretty well most of the time, but it occasionally has hiccups when Google updates stuff or something.

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      Piling on to the google alternatives heap: https://searx.space/

      You can pick a public instance of searxng and choose which engines it queries by going to the setting cog, then Engines. A few of these public instances I’ve checked out have only google enabled, though, so you really do need to check the settings.

      If you want to add a searxng instance as your default engine and your browser doesn’t automatically do it, the URL for that is: https://<searxng_url>/search?q=%s

      I have to add this manually for things like ironfox/firefox mobile.

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      There is a way to “turn it off” with some search parameters. However there is no guarantee that the AI is not consuming resources at the backend.

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        Also the search parameters are undocumented internal things that can change or be disabled at any time.

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    When I’m told there’s power issues and to conserve power I drop my AC to 60 and leave all my lights on. Only way for them to fix the grid is to break it.

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    Could someone please help me save some power and just post the image with the 5tits so I don’t need to have it regenerated de novo?

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    We’re going away folks, and nothing of any true value will be lost, except all the species that did live in homeostasis with the Earth that we’re taking with us in our species’ avarice induced murder-suicide

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      Carlin had some good material, but this is an absolutely stupid mindset. We can cause an extreme level of ecological damage. Will the planet eventually recover? Quite possibly. But that’s not a certainty, and in the mean time we’re triggering a mass extinction precisely because irresponsible humans figure there’s no way we can hurt the Earth and it’s self-important hubris to think that we can.

      But the time we’re living through and the time we’re heading into are all the proof we should need that it’s actually hubris to assume our actions have no meaningful impact.

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      I’ve been trying to write this comment the more concise possible, I’m trying my best. “We’re going away”, yes, that’s true. No matter what we are leaving this place, but, that doesn’t mean that the last days of humanity have to be surrounded by pollution and trash. All I can get of that quote in the image is that we should let big companies shit on us till we die.

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        “let”

        The sociopath fascist capitalists won. They have multilayered protection from us from propaganda dividing us and turning us on one another without end to government capture and having the exclusive use of state violence to protect the capital markets and literally having state sanctioned murder for for private profit. This isnt a war, this is a well oiled Orwellian occupation. The people surrendered half a century ago without terms and received the delusion that they’ll be the rich ones one day herp derp.

        We can’t do anything about the misery they spread, and that sucks. We don’t have to add to our misery by pretending there’s hope and we can turn any of it around. They’re going to do what we’re going to do and short of being a lone “terrorist” that takes a pot shot at them like Luigi there’s nothing to be done, because half of us are too cowardly and social opiate addicted(fast food, social media, literal opiates, etc) or too deluded and actually on the robber baron’s side out of pick me mentality to take it as a rallying cry.

        Only the planet itself, our shared habitat, can stop them. And it will, regardless of all the studies they kill, ecological treaties they betray, and all the propaganda they spread. The capitalists reign of terror will end when enough of their suckers are starving, not before.

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        It’s from https://perchance.org/welcome and is super cool because it’s like half a soul-less AI and half a super cool tool that gets people into programming and they actually care about the Internet because they encourage people to learn how to code their own ais and have fun with it and I would absolutely have DEVOURED it when I was 13 on Tumblr (I forgot my ADHD meds today sorry if I’m rambling)

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    Didn’t some legislation come out banning making laws against AI? (which I realize is a fucking crazy sentence in the first place- nothing besides rights should just get immunity to all potential new laws)

    So the cities aren’t even the bad guys here. The Senate is.

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      From what I can tell it got stripped from the Senate version that was just approved. They barely have the heads to pass it, so they aren’t going to play volleyball to add it back.

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      It’s both. Also don’t let the house, supreme court, or the orange buffoon and his cabinet get out of culpability. Checks and balances can work … when they all aren’t bought and paid for by rich fucks.

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    i feel it would actually kill some people to just say, yes, ai uses a lot of power, and no other qualifying statements tacked on

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      I have llama 3.2 on my phone and it’s really funny because it’s so low powered and dumb but so sweet.

      it’s like a little friend to talk to when I don’t have Internet. he’s a lil stupid but he got the spirit

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        Use Qwen 2.5, that’s my recommendation. You can also set “pals”. And the best part, is I have a portable battery and solar charger, so I could theoretically (and have in the past) run it from solar alone.

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    I wish the afterlife were real, so I could experience a world where God, not man, was in charge.

    Sadly that chump aint real either.

    I am not liberated by the Death of God, it is something I live in terror of.