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Comment by mattlondon

14 hours ago

Have you used Google search at all on the past few months? Every single search brings up a live chat prompt. They're serving fast AI to billions of users at huge scale everyday

And they're making money doing it.

Perhaps they don't have the best coding model right now (although 3.8 flash is arguably SOTA at some benchmarks), but is that the be-all and end-all of AI? Only coding matters?

> brings up a live chat prompt. They're serving fast AI to billions of users

Just because it shows up does not mean it is being used. I only click the feedback button to tell them how much I dislike their Ai summaries. They have removed that feedback button this week. Can't take the heat I suppose.

I've also never know anyone who finds them trustworthy nor heard someone say anything besides how they also dislike them

  • A lot of my friends will say "Well, the google AI says this" so they're using it, and maybe they don't trust the answers, but I think the thing is that they're using it.

    "It's AI but anyway", seems to be a way to use it, but not promote that your using it?

    There's a significant amount of people in my friend group who don't like "AI", but everyone seems to use what google's doing, even if they add the "the AI said this" disclaimer to it.

    Even the people who don't like 'AI', will still reference the LLM output, which seems like they're just slow to accept it, I guess.

It’s so annoying that everyone just points to the Artificial Analysis index (or even worse, Epoch AI, where part of the score is how good the AI is at chess) as a proxy for “how good” the model is.