• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Analogy is a little weak, because so much of modern AI has been shoehorned in after obliterating the more traditional routes for internet information lookups.

    If the traditional search engines have had their results irrepairably ruined by SEO and advertising? If you’re locked out of Wikipedia, because it’s been blacklisted for Wokeness? If StackExchange and Reddit have gone to shit because of all the spam? If you can’t use Discord from your company/school intranet? If your coworkers are all new hires, because your boss fired all the old-heads for demanding real living wages, and now you’re surrounded by a bunch of college grads with no experience in the company systems?

    Then yeah, I guess AI is what you’re left with.

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      5 hours ago

      Who’s really blocking Wikipedia though? Is that real?

      If my work environment was like that I’d be spending my workdays applying to other jobs as soon as I realized they live in the fictional trump cult version of “reality” meanwhile retaining evidence of their workplace political malfeasance to report if possible.

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        Who’s really blocking Wikipedia though? Is that real?

        YMMV. I’ve been on intranets that keep a whitelist and block everything else. And since Wikipedia wasn’t whitelisted, it was blocked by default.

        If my work environment was like that I’d be spending my workdays applying to other jobs as soon as I realized they live in the fictional trump cult version of “reality” meanwhile retaining evidence of their workplace political malfeasance to report if possible.

        If you’re a consultant, you’re going to be working inside other people’s networks. And those networks are going to have their own rules.