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Comment Re:WTF would we want that...? (Score 1, Interesting) 18

You must be old... like me.

15 years ago, a company we contracted to insisted that video calls were insecure. We were encouraged to disable our cameras for calls. We don't even have them installed on any production machines, only laptops that have been purchased for sales people.

Since then, this same company is puzzled when they set up conference calls with us, and we're the only ones that do NOT have video. "Sorry, that's considered a security issue, and we do not have video cameras."

Personally, I prefer not having the distraction of watching people fidget constantly during a call...

Comment I can see it (Score 3, Insightful) 93

As I've been searching lately, AI has been cutting in to my searches. When a search engine decides to throw AI at what I've asked for it, I search on a different search engine; I'm looking for matching WEB PAGES, not some computer's interpretation of what I've asked for.

I'm old-fashioned. I search for content, not computer guesses at content that might contain what I asked for. Today, I looked for information on a store chain having financial issues. Google decided I was looking for "closest to Chicago", for the Los Angeles-based chain. duckduckgo at least didn't prioritize Chicago store locations over the recently-reported corporate problems.

That sort of thing will cut my searches by at least 25% going forward, as they increase the bad data. I'm getting too old to deal with the [censored] "help".

Comment Who said... (Score -1, Offtopic) 153

"He has received a $1 million judgment against the writers. This was likely because scrutiny of his data showed no malfeasance or misuse of data, but the 'conservative' writers' accusations continued, nevertheless."

If that's true, it should say who said it.

Given the compensation was mostly a single dollar from most, someone thought the offense was rather low, but we don't know that, either.

Comment So THAT explains it! (Score 1, Insightful) 48

I rarely use Bing to search because the results have been so poor. Now, I know why... It has been "helping" by applying "AI" to answer queries where I only wanted sites that matched the search terms. "This is what you REALLY searched for!"

Have to guess that's why Google results have deteriorated so far recently, as they bring their AI-ASSisted search online.

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