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• I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon: ChatGPT’s search function is substantially better than Google’s AI search. And Google’s AI search is, frankly, so broken that it can barely be considered functional in some situations.

  I think part of the problem is that Google is asking its AI to serve two fundamentally conflicting purposes. It doesn’t just want an LLM that does LLM things. It wants an LLM that also functions as a marketing engine. And that makes sense from Google’s perspective because Google is, at its core, an advertising company that happens to operate some enormously successful technology platforms. Advertising is how Google makes the overwhelming majority of its money, so naturally it wants its AI to become part of that ecosystem.

  The problem is that optimizing an AI for advertising inevitably compromises its usefulness as an information system. The AI’s job should be to determine what information is most relevant to the user’s question and present it as accurately and efficiently as possible. An advertising platform has an entirely different objective: determine what can be sold, who will pay for access to the user, and how to maximize engagement and revenue. Those objectives can overlap, but they are not the same objective.

  And this gets even more interesting when you consider what increasingly capable AI systems are supposed to become. The fundamental value of an LLM, AGI, or whatever comes after AGI is that it can act as an intermediary between a human being and an enormous body of information, reasoning about what the human actually needs rather than simply presenting whatever happens to be profitable to show them.

  You can certainly put advertisements around an AI. You can even have an AI identify products or services that are relevant to a user. But the moment the AI itself becomes financially incentivized to favor one answer, product, company, or piece of information over another, you have fundamentally compromised the thing that makes the AI useful in the first place.

  A calculator doesn’t work better because the person who made it gets paid when you enter a particular number. A search engine shouldn’t give you a different answer because someone paid it to prefer that answer. And an intelligent system certainly shouldn’t be quietly optimizing its reasoning around whoever is willing to pay for access to your attention.

  The irony is that the more capable AI becomes, the less compatible that model should be with traditional advertising. Advertising depends on controlling what people see. Intelligence depends on being able to determine what is actually relevant. Those are fundamentally different incentives.

  As usual, the limiting factor may not be the technology itself. It may simply be our inability to resist turning every useful invention into another machine for extracting money from one another.

  on Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1h ago

• Appliance repair guy here and I have only one thing to say: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8h ago

• Motherfuck!

  Lookie here I’m all good with AI as a chatbot or making princess jasmine porn for the wackaloons.

  But connecting to your email, sending emails. OR FUCKING BEING USED FOR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE I draw the fucking line!

  The hell is wrong with these people!

  on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• 😂

  Unzips

  on Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Yes. Thank you for interest in my privacy. I definitely don’t need Windows knowing how much prolapse porn I like to watch.

  

  on Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• And yet you do.

  on Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Me using unlicensed windows to jerk off for the 4th time at 3am.

  

  on Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• It wasn’t for its time. It feels like that now since so many tired to copy it’s formula.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• Nintendo hasn’t innovated anything since the Super Nintendo. It’s been the same schlock over and over again, just with variations on a theme. Open-world games aren’t inherently innovative, and there are multiple better open-world games than freaking Mario Kart.

  And that puzzle game was basically a rehash of something they made back in the early 2000s. Nintendo is the king of rinse and repeat.

  I remember everyone shitting their pants over Breath of the Wild. I literally bought a Wii U just to play it, and I liked the game. I thought it was very, very good. But then I played Horizon Zero Dawn and realized just how comparatively lazy Breath of the Wild felt.

  Nintendo knows exactly what they have. They understand their fanbase, they know nostalgia will carry them a long way, and they take advantage of that in much the same way Apple does. They don’t necessarily have to reinvent the wheel when they know people will happily buy the same wheel with a slightly different hubcap every few years.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• Nintendo Games Released in the Last 3 Years

  2023

  • Super Mario Bros. Wonder
  • Detective Pikachu Returns
  • WarioWare: Move It!
  • Super Mario RPG

  2024

  • Another Code: Recollection
  • Mario vs. Donkey Kong
  • Princess Peach: Showtime!
  • Endless Ocean Luminous
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
  • Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD
  • Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition
  • Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
  • Mario & Luigi: Brothership

  2025

  • Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
  • Mario Kart World
  • Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
  • Donkey Kong Bananza
  • Pokémon Legends: Z-A
  • Kirby Air Riders
  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

  2026

  • Mario Tennis Fever
  • Star Fox
  • Splatoon Raiders
  • Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition – Switch 2 Edition
  • Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

  Ya. Super innovative.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Preach brother.

  They make the same old tired games over and over again and people go crazy for them.

  “OMG this new Mario game is revolutionary they really improve the jump mechanic!”

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• O no! Looks like most of Lemmy is going to stand on their laurels and not play a single Nintendo game ever again! Right?

  Because y’all hate AI so much.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• I honestly always believed that it was a church busy body that was doing this. She probably has a small track record of resolving issues like this in the past and it just went straight to her head.

  on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Lol.

  Expedition 33 was a turn-based jrpg.

  I’m just saying these publishers have lost the plot.

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• ☹️

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• It’s for a church. NEXT.

  (If you’ve never seen it)

  on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• I played through Diablo 4, and honestly, the frustrating part is that there’s a genuinely good game buried underneath all the live-service bullshit.

  The core gameplay works. The combat feels good, the classes are fun, the world is well designed, and there’s a solid Diablo game in there. If Blizzard had simply made it a traditional single-player Diablo game with optional online multiplayer, I think it could have been fucking phenomenal.

  Instead, they decided they needed the live-service model.

  And that created a massive problem: there was barely an endgame. Once you finished the campaign, the game basically became a loop of running the same types of activities over and over again, waiting for Blizzard to drip-feed additional content through seasons and updates. The live-service content wasn’t arriving quickly enough to justify the structure they’d built the entire game around.

  That’s what pisses me off about modern game development. Publishers keep chasing the idea that every game needs to become an endlessly monetized platform. Sony wants it. EA wants it. Everyone wants the next Fortnite or Destiny, despite the fact that most of them can’t actually pull it off.

  Diablo 4 didn’t need to be a live service.

  It just needed to be a really fucking good Diablo game.

  There was a damn good game in there. They just built the wrong fucking business model around it.

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Granted!

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• It’s an open-world shooter.

  Christ on a stick.

  They’re hounding after that damned MMO shit like every other publisher is. Sony wants it, EA wants it, everyone wants it, and nobody can fucking make it work. Hell, even Bungie couldn’t pull it off with Marathon.

  Why do they keep letting the market dictate what kind of games they should make? Just make a good fucking game. Stop consulting some market specialist who tells you, “Well, gamers are really interested in live-service engagement loops right now.” No shit, Brad. Gamers are also interested in games that are actually fun.

  It’s like every publisher looks at the last five disasters and says, “Okay, but what if WE do it?”

  Like it hasn’t worked for literally any of them. Why would it suddenly work for a fucking megacorp like Blizzard?

  And it’s coming out in four fucking years.

  Four years!

  I don’t care what’s coming out in four years! I barely know what I’m doing next fucking Tuesday. You’re telling me I should get excited about a game that won’t exist until 2030?

  I’m sure they’ll announce Diablo 5 in 2069 and tell us it’s going to revolutionize the genre with an innovative blockchain-enabled social extraction MMO where you spend 45 minutes farming a dungeon just to unlock the ability to farm another dungeon.

  Just make a good goddamned game.

  That’s it.

  You don’t need to reinvent the fucking industry. You don’t need a market trend. You don’t need an engagement strategist. You don’t need a ten-year roadmap.

  Make a good game.

  Then make another one.

  Jesus Christ.

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Dude. Don’t you have a cell phone?!?

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Iron supplement.

  on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• You know, it’s stuff like this that continues to irritate me to absolutely no end.

  These dumbass chatbots you are referring to have already significantly changed the industry, for better or worse. The change has occurred. There are already so many things happening with these LLMs that are changing the way industries operate, and they aren’t even that good yet. Your personal bias against this technology has absolutely nothing to do with its applications.

  The changes will increasingly be about computational power and the ability to process information at speeds and scales we have never seen before.

  And this is where the potential of AGI becomes enormous.

  Imagine an entity or device capable of taking essentially the entirety of human knowledge available to it, understanding the relationships between that information, reasoning across multiple fields simultaneously, and processing it at a speed and scale no human being could ever match. Now imagine that system being able to conduct research, identify patterns, generate and test hypotheses, design experiments, write software, analyze enormous datasets, and continuously improve its understanding of a problem.

  That isn’t magic. That is essentially the direction this technology is moving toward. Current LLMs are crude and limited compared with what a true AGI would theoretically be capable of, but they are already demonstrating the basic premise: machines can process and synthesize information in ways that are extremely useful to humans.

  An AGI capable of reliably doing those things could provide an absolutely massive advantage to humanity. Scientific research that takes teams of humans years could potentially be accelerated dramatically. Complex engineering problems could be attacked from thousands of different approaches simultaneously. Medical research, materials science, energy production, climate modeling, mathematics, and countless other fields could benefit from having an intelligence capable of working continuously across enormous bodies of information.

  That doesn’t mean AGI would automatically make everything better. There are enormous risks, economic consequences, alignment problems, and questions about who controls such a system. Those are legitimate things to debate.

  But dismissing the technology because you personally dislike current LLM chatbots doesn’t answer the question of what the technology could become.

  Go use the technology. Stop being a Luddite when it comes to LLMs. It is already being used as a tool. It already does things that are useful and makes many tasks easier for humans. I know that’s an unpopular opinion on this platform, but it remains true regardless of how much you dislike the technology.

  And, for the record, we have not fed “all of human knowledge” into an LLM. These systems are trained on enormous collections of available data, and there are legitimate and significant controversies surrounding the inclusion of copyrighted material in those datasets. Whether copyrighted works should be used for AI training without permission or compensation is a completely legitimate question. But that issue is separate from whether the underlying technology has useful applications.

  The point is that AGI doesn’t need to possess every piece of human knowledge to be revolutionary. It needs to be capable of acquiring, understanding, reasoning about, and applying information at a scale and speed that humans cannot match.

  If we ever achieve that, the question won’t be whether AGI can benefit humanity. The question will be how humanity chooses to use an intelligence with capabilities vastly beyond those of any individual human being.

  on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• So hear me out.

  From a purely strategic standpoint, the ultimate goal is artificial general intelligence. Eventually, humanity is going to get there. The question is who gets there first, and what they do with it.

  The country that achieves genuinely transformative AGI first could potentially gain an enormous strategic advantage. And if AGI is capable of significantly accelerating AI research itself, that advantage could compound very quickly: AGI helps develop better AI, which accelerates scientific and technological development, which produces even more capable AI.

  Whoever gets there second may not necessarily be permanently incapable of catching up, but they could find themselves facing a massive technological and economic gap that becomes increasingly difficult to close.

  And here’s where I think things get uncomfortable.

  The countries competing to develop this technology are not necessarily going to have the same restrictions. Some countries may be considerably less concerned about copyright, training data, ethical restrictions, censorship, or what subjects an AI is permitted to discuss.

  I’m not saying those concerns aren’t legitimate. They absolutely are. But from a purely geopolitical standpoint, there is a potential danger in one country imposing significant self-restraints while its competitors don’t.

  Because if AGI really does become as transformative as many people believe it could be, this isn’t just another technology race. It could become a race over scientific advancement, industrial capacity, military technology, economic productivity, and potentially the ability to develop even more advanced AI.

  And, honestly, I would rather the United States and other democratic countries reach that point first than China, North Korea, or another highly authoritarian state.

  That doesn’t mean I think democratic countries are incapable of abusing powerful technology. Of course they are. The point is that who controls a technology this powerful matters enormously.

  So when people talk about AI development purely in terms of corporate profits or whether AI companies should be allowed to train on particular datasets, I think they’re sometimes missing the much larger geopolitical picture.

  We’re potentially talking about a technology that could fundamentally alter the balance of power between nations.

  That’s a very different conversation.

  Disclaimer: I’m not necessarily advocating for AI or LLMs here. I’m simply trying to look at the situation from a purely strategic/geopolitical perspective and consider how governments and other actors might view the race toward AGI.

  on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• What you said isn’t an analogy… What?

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• No. That’s… That’s completely wrong.

  It is amazing how y’all don’t know how any of this tech works.

  Linus Torvalds used it to fix some code but it’s like a Photoshop filter? Come on man… You can’t be that intentionally ignorant.

  Go do some research. Jesus.

  Look I’m not some kind of supporter or fan boy but even I know how utterly reductive and incorrect what you said is.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Some of a bitch!

  Just a few days ago, I argued with a douche nozzle who told me, with the confidence of a master debater, that AI has no useful purpose.

  But apparently, not all of you feel that way. Linus uses AI and suddenly y’all change your tune! What a load of crap!

  I’ve been sitting here saying for years that AI is a tool and should be used as such, while getting called a tech-bro simp for saying it.

  Man, this has once again revealed the massive, two-faced, bandwagon nature of Lemmy.

  Y’all should have stayed on Reddit!

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• I’ve tried everything it eventually doesn’t update all on its own regardless of you wanting to do it or not. So I just stop trying to fight it.

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• This source doesn’t establish what you think it establishes.

  First, it’s a September 2021 infographic, updated in February 2024, not some contemporary study demonstrating that “AI in general” is racially prejudiced. More importantly, the subject here is health-care algorithms, and the article is specifically discussing algorithms that were deliberately designed to use race as a variable or that learned disparities from historical health-care data.

  In fact, the source explicitly says that these systems can unintentionally increase existing racial biases through the explicit use of race in predicting outcomes and risk. That’s not evidence that AI possesses racial prejudice. It’s evidence that humans designed algorithms using race as a predictive variable, despite race being a poor proxy for genetic differences. The article even gives examples of medical algorithms where researchers subsequently removed race from the calculation.

  That’s an extremely important distinction you’re completely glossing over.

  If I build an algorithm that says “Black = higher risk” and the algorithm consequently produces a racial disparity, I’ve demonstrated that my algorithm contains a problematic racial assumption. I have not demonstrated that “AI is inherently racist.” Likewise, if an algorithm uses health-care spending as a proxy for how sick someone is, and that proxy reflects existing racial disparities in access to health care, the resulting bias comes from the data and the proxy, not some intrinsic racial prejudice possessed by the AI.

  And your source actually undermines the broader claim you’re trying to make. It explicitly discusses AI being used to reduce racial disparities and cites research where algorithmic approaches improved outcomes or reduced unexplained disparities.

  So yes, algorithmic bias in health care is a real and well-documented problem. Nobody is disputing that. What you’re doing is taking evidence that specific algorithms can encode or reproduce human biases and extrapolating it into “AI itself is racially prejudiced.”

  That’s not what your source says, and it isn’t what the evidence demonstrates.

  on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Lol refund. I just use the batch file to activate Windows 11.

  on Get your Windows license refund now! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• What? That’s not even remotely how that works.

  A human being is also shaped by the information they’ve encountered throughout their life. You’ve encountered racism, stupidity, misinformation, and countless other forms of bad information. That doesn’t mean you automatically become racist, stupid, or incapable of distinguishing good information from bad information.

  AI works similarly in the sense that its training data contains an enormous amount of contradictory, inaccurate, biased, and outright terrible information. The mere presence of that information in the training data does not logically imply that the resulting model possesses those characteristics.

  And AI isn’t “dumb” or “smart” in the way you’re describing. Those are human cognitive attributes. The relevant question is what a model can actually do, what patterns it has learned, and how reliably it performs a given task.

  You don’t like AI. Fine. But you clearly don’t understand how it works, and this is an unfortunately constant problem on this platform. People make an assumption about AI, then present that assumption as though they’ve discovered some fundamental truth about the technology.

  Misinformation is misinformation. It doesn’t become correct because you think the conclusion is morally justified. You didn’t figure out anything about AI here. You made an assumption and called it true.

  All, I’m saying if you’re going to critique something, at least know what you’re critiquing or criticizing.

  Also before anybody makes any more assumptions, what happen here is absolutely mind-blowingly horrific. Using csam to train anything is just terrible and exploitive. I’m very sorry for doe for having to continuously go through this.

  Also also the people responsible for this should be charged with possession of CSAM and prosecuted in a court of law.

  Disclaimer: Disagreeing with someone’s argument, pointing out flaws in their reasoning, or interpreting their position differently does not automatically make it a straw man. For example, if I say, “I think we should reduce military spending,” and you respond, “You think we should completely eliminate the military,” you have created a straw man. You are arguing against a position I never actually took.

  on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• For the people not using Linux in the comment section, you can’t skip a Windows update. It’s going to happen no matter what.

  I mean I guess you can adjust the registry or whatever but 90% of Windows users aren’t going to do any of that.

  I could have done it and I didn’t. I updated and now my cursor is all fucked up.

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• And yet it still costs me 30 dollars to charge my car in Georgia and in a state like new York it’s 60 to 100 dollars.

  on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• Ahhh. That makes sense. I’m assuming the airplane is also just a giant flying solar panel!

  on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• One important caveat to this. It costs less than 17 cents to generate 1 kwh. Closer to 3 cents really. But that’s the cost of making the electricity, getting that electricity to a house or charger or what have you costs more. Since energy is a for profit industry they tack all the logistics costs to the client buying the electricity.

  So your math is spot on but I fear the amount of markup on the electricity will be massive especially since it’s for a business let alone an airline.

  on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026