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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out

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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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DuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable...
  • wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe
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    I’d say most people don’t really care

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      Most people are idiots.

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        As mostly a person I’m offended!

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          As an idiot, I am too!

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      This comment is unnecessarily dismissive and unhelpful.

      If people don’t care, then they won’t care if it’s gone either. And that’s the better option.

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        If enough people were that bothered about a box with an AI overview, it wouldn’t be there. Simple as that. The thing is that the overview turns out to be helpful in some cases, despite what the haters think.

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          No, the act of a company shoving something bad down people’s throats does not prove it’s what they wanted. You should know this.

          We have polls that have calculated people’s sentiment. They are sick of AI .

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            Ok, if people hate AI so much, you’ll see it being gone soon. No company would want to spend money keeping an useless feature, principally DDG, which is no monopoly.

            Also, that poll is about Americans, I don’t give a shit what Americans think.

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              if people hate AI so much, you’ll see it being gone soon

              That’s not how capitalism works. If you genuinely believe in the Invisible Hand Of The Market, you shouldn’t.

              And you should know better: just days ago , you were telling people capitalism, not AI, was the real villain, which makes your tone here come across as trollish.

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                This isn’t really about the invisible hand of the market, I was talking about a single company. It costs money to keep those models up, which DDG itself hosts. If we were taking about Google, for example, then I could see the argument since it is a monopoly and my line of reasoning wouldn’t work.

                I’m not trying to be troll as you accuse, I’m just trying to think from different perspectives and have something less sensitive to ideology.

                We don’t find out the truth by agreeing with everything that panders to our beliefs.

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                  lol.

                  if you think people aren’t sick of this trash, you’re leading a very sheltered life and need to get outside and speak with humans, not just ask your llm what to think.

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                    If you think people deeply hate AI as you seem to do, maybe you should take your own advice, because the humans I talk with in a daily basis on my job are completely ok with it.

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          Recently, my mom killed one of her plants, because she searched for something to use as organic fertilizer and the ai summary suggested to add coffee grounds mixed with water daily. She realized it was a fake information and isn’t trusting anything from internet searchers anymore. I wonder if at some point it will happen to most non-tech people, and search usage will go down heavily.

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            Coffee grounds can be helpful to add to fertilizer, but you need more than just coffee grounds: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11241280/

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              This being partially right is probably exactly how it ended up in the training data. But AI is too dumb to understand which parts are relevant/important.

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      wrong.

      • wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe
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        lol

        • borkborkbork@piefed.social
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          here’s two links to give you an idea where the AI shit is going:

          https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-data-center-fort-wayne-indiana-wetlands

          https://www.404media.co/city-that-arrested-person-for-clapping-at-data-center-meeting-moves-to-virtual-townhalls-for-public-safety/

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