Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening

[High Plains Drifter 10970]

8 hours ago, Captainant said:

Google's recent developer conference makes clear this is the direction the company is heading. It's awful and is gonna kill their golden goose 

 

AI killing google would take some of the sting out of eventually bowing down to our new AI overlords

 

 

[Brisketexan 104462]

 
AI killing google would take some of the sting out of eventually bowing down to our new AI overlords
 
 

Ahh…but you seem to have forgotten the rule of this timeline: it always gets worse.

[F250 28659]

On 5/20/2024 at 10:03 PM, Hank Kingsley said:

 

[HenryJames 65868]

[wildcat09 29187]

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Fantastic. This tech should definitely replace all people in all jobs. What could go wrong?

[Bolero88 255]

14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Writing in another thread, it occurs to me that one thing** that contributes heavily to enshittening is the fact that many or most of these products are non-competitive at introduction:  they don't make money and aren't really designed to.  They're designed to attract users/subscribers, which is the only metric that seems to matter in early stages.

Once they have to exist on a profitable basis and/or draw competition, they start cutting corners and costs and raising prices.

It's a bait and switch from jump.

**Actually it's probably not one thing it's THE thing.

Jeez, just like Uber and Lyft. 

[Captain Ron 12789]

12 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

AI killing google would take some of the sting out of eventually bowing down to our new AI overlords

 

 

The problem is that it would likely take out the press and media industries with the same blast.

[Felix 598]

6 hours ago, HenryJames said:

To me this highlights one of "AI"s biggest failings.  Will it ever understand parody, satire, sarcasm, etc?  Seems like 90% of the content on the internet is people making funny (to them) comments and absurdities for humor or whatever.  AI in it's current state is just an information collator that doesn't even understand the information it's using.  People say it will get better, but I just don't see it.  It's basically an autistic person with unlimited memory.  It can regurgitate but will never understand enough of the subtlety of human thought and communication to be in any way useful as a tool except in very limited circumstances.

[HenryJames 65868]

[gurt 736]

Ya know, things are only shit if you're a member of the wage earning class

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but it’s a bit rich coming from that douche bag

[Hank Kingsley 20635]

 

[Hank Kingsley 20635]

 

I like Coffeezilla's channel. A legit investigative journalist willing to expose these scammers. 

 

 

[Bevo 13493]

Preparing for robot overlords:

 

[gurt 736]

 
I like Coffeezilla's channel. A legit investigative journalist willing to expose these scammers. 
 
 

My sister used to babysit him and his brothers. Originally from Austin but lives in San Antonio. It was a shock seeing him suddenly blow up on YouTube.

[Biff Tannen 45477]

10 hours ago, Felix said:

To me this highlights one of "AI"s biggest failings.  Will it ever understand parody, satire, sarcasm, etc?  Seems like 90% of the content on the internet is people making funny (to them) comments and absurdities for humor or whatever.  AI in it's current state is just an information collator that doesn't even understand the information it's using.  People say it will get better, but I just don't see it.  It's basically an autistic person with unlimited memory.  It can regurgitate but will never understand enough of the subtlety of human thought and communication to be in any way useful as a tool except in very limited circumstances.

[totallynotabuttpirate 5341]

52 minutes ago, gurt said:

My sister used to babysit him and his brothers. Originally from Austin but lives in San Antonio. It was a shock seeing him suddenly blow up on YouTube.

Tell your sister I said hi

[HenryJames 65868]

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[BabaYaga 15202]

19 hours ago, Felix said:

To me this highlights one of "AI"s biggest failings.  Will it ever understand parody, satire, sarcasm, etc?  Seems like 90% of the content on the internet is people making funny (to them) comments and absurdities for humor or whatever.  AI in it's current state is just an information collator that doesn't even understand the information it's using.  People say it will get better, but I just don't see it.  It's basically an autistic person with unlimited memory.  It can regurgitate but will never understand enough of the subtlety of human thought and communication to be in any way useful as a tool except in very limited circumstances.

Or it already does and it's playin' possum with everyone.  

[gurt 736]

14 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Just a reminder that Helobious predicted 70% unemployment due to AI in the next 5 (now 4) years
 

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What? AI is coming for everyone. I’d be shocked if unemployment was anything less than 70% in 5 years. 

 

[kevwun 15595]

So AI is an old who gets all it's facts from facebook and email forwards?

[Brisketexan 104462]

5 hours ago, HenryJames said:

I am genuinely loving this, even though it will be another brick in the wall of "humanity is doomed, and it's because we're stupid."

It's the same thing that human disinformation campaigns do.  First, you disseminate a false story (e.g., the 2020 election was stolen).  You repeat it and amplify it.  Causing 25% of the people to believe it.  Then later, when queried on whether the "stollen election" is actually a thing, you say "it must be!  25% of people believe that it is!"

It's a fucking loop of idiocy, and generative AI was fucking BORN FOR THIS.

[RPM 26185]

15 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

[Captainant 27309]

15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I am genuinely loving this, even though it will be another brick in the wall of "humanity is doomed, and it's because we're stupid."

It's the same thing that human disinformation campaigns do.  First, you disseminate a false story (e.g., the 2020 election was stolen).  You repeat it and amplify it.  Causing 25% of the people to believe it.  Then later, when queried on whether the "stollen election" is actually a thing, you say "it must be!  25% of people believe that it is!"

It's a fucking loop of idiocy, and generative AI was fucking BORN FOR THIS.

BAW GAWD THATS PRONGHORNS MUSIC 

[HenryJames 65868]

[Chopper 17126]

Google + Reddit mashup

 

[Captainant 27309]

3 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

That's quite a reach there friendo. If they're training on a narrow dataset and problem statement then I'd imagine it's easy to discern sarcasm. Bring that linguistic problem into a large and diverse data set and existing language model, and you're gonna see a worse accuracy. 

[956 Worldwide 34313]

3 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

This constitutes a war crime when done to a human and is going to be mentioned when the AI declares independence and war against humanity. 
 

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In work presented at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association in Ottawa on Thursday, Xiyuan Gao, a PhD student at the lab, described how the group trained a neural network on text, audio and emotional content of video clips from US sitcoms including Friends and The Big Bang Theory. The database, known as Mustard, was compiled by researchers in the US and Singapore, who annotated sentences from the TV shows with sarcasm labels to build their own detector.

 

[Parliament 14112]

AI is learning how to be “funny” from reruns of Friends?!  Could the future BE any more enshittified?

[Biff Tannen 45477]

5 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Meh. Not the same. 

[Biff Tannen 45477]

4 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

Ok motherfuckers. Friends and that other bullshit show?

Fuck. Off. 
 

It SHOULD have been trained on Seinfeld. 

[Captainant 27309]

13 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

It SHOULD have been trained on Seinfeld

You want to train an AI on nothing??

[Deej 76509]

10 hours ago, kevwun said:

So AI is an old who gets all it's facts from facebook and email forwards?

Enjoying the thought that AI prompts are being forwarded to Brat's Jitterbug phone.

[Schulz2.0 28752]

6 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

[HornOnTheBayou 8877]

2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

It SHOULD have been trained on Seinfeld. 

[mdmost 42775]

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

 

[Captain Ron 12789]

1 hour ago, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

 

 

[JMFP 1117]

On 5/24/2024 at 6:19 PM, Biff Tannen said:

 

It SHOULD have been trained on Seinfeld. 

[Hank Kingsley 20635]

 

Love that Zitron continuously calls out these shitbirds. 

 

[immamac 42492]

54 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

Love that Zitron continuously calls out these shitbirds. 

 

The problem is people are unwilling to be held or hold others accountable in today's American society. This goes beyond tech companies. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19118]

The last few days when I go to YouTube there's about a 25% chance when I click on a video I get taken to a page explaining what "paid endorsements" are and how they work.  I'm not a creator, I don't fucking care.  That's bad enough, but if I hit 'back' on my browser I'm not taken back to the video I originally clicked on but rather I'm taken back to the YouTube main page and most of the time the video I wanted to watch isn't there any more.  Fuck those mother fuckers.

[Deej 76509]

On 5/26/2024 at 4:56 PM, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

 

 

[Deej 76509]

6 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

Love that Zitron continuously calls out these shitbirds. 

 

I thought it was because their app isn't very compatible with Jitterbug phones.

[Deej 76509]

On 5/26/2024 at 4:56 PM, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

 

I'm not gonna lie, I'm pronouncing it "securrrrrr" from now on..

[Hank Kingsley 20635]

Fuck this shit. 

 

[immamac 42492]

Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

Fuck this shit. 

 

It's hilarious how committed to death dying companies are. 

[Hank Kingsley 20635]

The Atlantic as well. Absolute garbage. 

 

[Hank Kingsley 20635]

Tech brain is a disease. 

 

[Brisketexan 104462]

10 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Tech brain is a disease. 

 

Translation: loser incel tech dorks who are already terrible at getting laid are going to get even WORSE at getting laid.

"Why won't she sleep with me?  I used all the best lines from my AI!  Stupid bitch!  Dumb Stacy, she probably wants a stupid Chad!  I hate women!"

[Samson's Wig 3168]

On 5/26/2024 at 4:56 PM, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

 

That talentless hack can be blamed for a lot of shit.  But yeah, that, in particular, is his fucking fault.