Super frustrating the AI Chatbots are infecting my Firefox browser now. It looks like malware and pretty much acts like it since it cannot be disabled from the sidebar outside of closing this window. I like vertical tabs, but they require so many other options by default. Even more frustrating that the URL goes to a chrome browser link: chrome://browser/content/genai/chat.html

Alarms very heightened.

  • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
    81·
    8 days ago

    I’m still wondering who is going to make the new and updated content for the AI to inaccurately return if it can’t be found using a search. Like if AI summaries replaced all the news sites, where would the AI get the news?

    It seems like they took the approach of loading a ton of historical data without any forethought on how AI replacing search would kill the motivation to post anything new on the web at all.

    • Jtotheb@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Or realizing that sometimes you’re looking for something specific. I remembered an old website that described the seven major metropolises of Antarctica the other day and spent a month trying on and off to coax the result out of Google, which kept serving me results that only matched a few words from my search while Gemini tried alternately to educate me about how there were no real cities in Antarctica and to make up its own stories about imaginary cities there.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      What if you weren’t concerned about delivering what the user wanted as there wasn’t sufficient competition to force you to, why you could just deliver whatever the highest bidder or your own interests and biases decided?

      This used to be a debate Google had with itself, now it’s every single company’s dream to provide what they want you to see.“Splinternet”. What are your options to find other info if there isn’t a functional, reasonably searchable internet to verify, compare, research, debunk, etc.?

      It will take a shorter time to ruin the Internet than it did to build it, and I’ll be racing back to the library as long as books are still in print.