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Comment by foxyv

2 days ago

The one thing I've found AI is good at is parsing through the hundreds of ad ridden, barely usable websites for answers to my questions. I use the Duck Duck Go AI a lot to answer questions. I trust it about as far as I can throw the datacenter it resides in, but it's useful for quickly verifiable things. Especially stuff like syntax and command line options for various programs.

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oblio  2 days ago

> The one thing I've found AI is good at is parsing through the hundreds of ad ridden, barely usable websites for answers to my questions.

One thing I can guarantee you is that this won't last. No sane MBA will ignore that revenue stream.

Image hosting services, all over again.

  • foxyv  2 days ago

    You are entirely correct. The enshittification will continue. All we can do is enjoy these things while they are still usable.

    • benatkin  2 days ago

      Nope, this only applies to a small percent of content, where a relatively small number of people needs access to it and the incentive to create derivative work based on it is low, or where there's a huge amount of content that's frequently changing (think airfares). But yes, they will protect it more.

      For content that doesn't change frequently and is used by a lot of people it will be hard to control access to it or derivative works based on it.

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  • o11c  2 days ago

    The difference, of course, is that most AI companies don't have the malicious motive that Google has by also being an ad company.