https://subium.com/profile/wired.com/post/3lpmnyu4xjc2q
As far as I can tell - this has no transcript. “Live blog” means only livestreams? https://www.wired.com/live/google-io-2025-live-blog/
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AI: A product so bad they literally need to force you to use it to make it relevant.
I don’t know a single person who likes the AI summary, or finds it to be remotely useful in any way.
My students do at the high school and junior college level. I just want to grab them and shake them and say “I DON’T CARE WHAT THE LIE MACHINE SAYS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A REAL SOURCE. IF IT DOESN’T HAVE AN AUTHOR OR EDITOR LISTED IT DOESN’T COUNT. IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO SCROLL TO THE ACTUAL LINKS AND COMPARE/CONTRAST SOURCES AND OPINIONS WITHIN YOU’RE GOING TO BELIEVE LITERALLY THE FIRST THINGS YOU SEE AND THAT’S A NIGHTMARE.”
It’s so weird how we are barrelling towards a system no one wants or likes, or has any real means to generate profit, yet it’s all happening anyway because all the big tech companies have major FOMO about it. This is going to be a much bigger crash than the .com bubble.
Where do we get information now? Should we go back to the library and take out books? Feels like the age of easy information is over.
Alternate search engines exist and work just fine. Hop on duckduckgo or qwant, disable their little summary features, and boom regular reliable search engine with no LLM slop built in. You could also go straight to a resource, like Brittanica or Wikipedia, and look up your info there. The only thing I use Google for is Scholar to find papers and for YouTube, everything else has a better replacement and has done for years now.
option a) evolve. the internet is changing for the worse so our search skills have to get better.
option b) retvrn. libraries are still pretty cool places to get information.
Maybe that’ll work for a while, but AI slop is already getting printed and bound
Heheh… walking through the local library months ago and there’s a huge shelf of climan denier books in the non-fiction section. Its… not good folks.
you gotta pay for search now… kagi offers 500 searches for like $5 or some shit… what a world
Gonna recommend Yandex here. Same privacy and data collection issues as Google but the search works way better most of the times. And they don’t take down copyrighted material so it’s super easy to find pirated illegal streams or books
Only worse sometimes if you’re searching for something dependent on Western culture/slang
I’ve been using Gemini a lot recently for coding, and it is very useful in certain cases, but it hallucinates so much, and worse still, it claims to be looking stuff up on the internet while it’s clearly just making it up
it claims to be looking stuff up on the internet while it’s clearly just making it up
it’s a liberal
