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The complete destruction of Google Search via forced AI adoption and the carnage it is wreaking on the internet is deeply depressing, but there are bright spots. For example, as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for. And that is to confidently serve its customers ideas like, to make cheese stick on a pizza, ā€œyou can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glueā€ to pizza sauce, which comes directly from the mind of a Reddit user who calls themselves ā€œFucksmithā€ and posted about putting glue on pizza 11 years ago.

A joke that people made when Google and Reddit announced their data sharing agreement was that Googleā€™s AI would become dumber and/or ā€œpoisonedā€ by scraping various Reddit shitposts and would eventually regurgitate them to the internet. (This is the same joke people made about AI scraping Tumblr). Giving people the verbatim wisdom of Fucksmith as a legitimate answer to a basic cooking question shows that Googleā€™s AI is actually being poisoned by random shit people say on the internet.

Because Google is one of the largest companies on Earth and operates with near impunity and because its stock continues to skyrocket behind the exciting news that AI will continue to be shoved into every aspect of all of its products until morale improves, it is looking like the user experience for the foreseeable future will be one where searches are random mishmashes of Reddit shitposts, actual information, and hallucinations. Sundar Pichai will continue to use his own product and say ā€œthis is good.ā€

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I want AI answers that end saying that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcerā€™s table.

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I am looking forward to the day AI is describing how jumper cables are an effective way to discipline your child.

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36 points

I want an AI that writes me a relevant poem in every thread.

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Say no more fam

Hey @Mistral@lemmings.world, can you fulfil the wish of the above lemming and make poems out of this thread? Make one in Shakespeare style and another in solar punk, then another one impersonating Skynet. Thank you my Overlord.

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13 points

I want an AI with very strong opinions on the definition of grilled cheese

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5 points

Ahhh the olā€™ artificial intelligence-a-roo

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I mean, itā€™s not untrueā€¦

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22 points

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What about Cactus Jack?

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I miss u/shittymorph

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