For some reason, for the past month or so, when I google stuff the first result is ‘Can’t generate an AI overview right now, try again later’. Maybe one time in 50 it’ll do the AI response.

I don’t know if I changed a setting and forgot, or if they just don’t like me, or if their local processing can’t hack it. Either way, it makes me actually go to the websites, like the good old days of a couple of years ago! And I find better info doing that.

Honestly, the AI overview is crap. One time, searching for legal stuff about a potentially precedent setting case I’m involved in, it responded referring specifically to my case - as though it had been resolved and the precedent was set.

So yeah, I wouldn’t trust that shit to provide me a recipe for biscuits.

Isn’t that doing more harm to the environment than you then? I appreciate the sentiment tho

Bought crypto, tumbled it, left the country. At least, that’d be the first thing to occur to me if I was looking at an account fat with the dollars of pea-brained right wing fucks.

With blackjack! And children!

My insurance provider replaced all their customer service people with AI, it’s fuckin useless and I’m switching company.

He eats Dijon mustard!

Yeah, if we’ve gotta have capitalism at least turn down the volume a bit.

Sorry, I no longer own one. Had one a few years ago tho and was very happy with it. I used to mostly sideload books via calibre through a cable connection but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t feasible via WiFi. IIRC I put an android launcher on it so was also able to use the browser to download directly from various free books sites.

Never tried via WiFi, I just use calibre. But you probably can, it’s rich with features.

My insurance provider has already replaced all of its customer service staff with AI. As I found out when I tried to ask them a question the other day. I’m changing insurance companies.

And there will only be bots looking at it.

The tea & coffee fund

Yeah, the NSA proved that when their exploits leaked. Eternal blue and I’m sure they have a much more stuff we can only guess at.

Fuckin lobsters.

I mean vultures. Same thing really.

My work just got a fleet of electric iveco vans and they are shit. Constantly breaking down, having battery issues, fatal error messages all the time. Seems like maybe it’s more software issues than hardware, and they’re lovely when they’re actually working.

And meanwhile, consumers have to sell a kidney if they want to upgrade their devices.

Lol I quit reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing. Recently went on there cos I was googling some game stuff that led me there - and I found that the account that was logged in had been banned. I hadn’t commented or voted out even really been there for 2 years and somewhere in that time I earned a ban, somehow. Gotta laugh.

IKR, I left reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing, and even then it felt like there were a lot of bots around. I can only imagine that’s increased massively with Gen AI having become so ubiquitous. If I were an advertiser or investor, that’s a question that would worry me.

You sure it’s your Spidey senses?

Depends how well done you like them.