Stephenson mentions this phenomenon in The Diamond Age, where as people approach higher strata, their news gets to look more the same so they're all on the same page. I have another proposal for why it would be such and why it's NOT desirable, though: the wealthy pissing down on us actually do tend to read the same shit in the real world... Because they have the same goal of treading upon us.

I have a crappy dynamic website and people do read it, though not as many as when Google search functioned. But I keep creating content, which helps.

Like most websites, Reddit is on a downward spiral. It got great, then compromised everything that made it that way for money. But the goose doesn't die all at once, so I guess there's some money to be made there before it crashes and burns.

Is it moral to blame victims?

I asked Gemini for a list of the mascots of schools in my county. This should be easy, right? LLMs are good at summarizing, right?

Nope. Gemini told me no such thing existed.

There was such a thing right below the AI response, in the traditional search results.

Google's AI search is complete shit, and anyone who thinks it's good is proving they are shit at searching.

The people who didn't care enough about it to vote were still voting... For anything to happen, they cared not what. They voted for chaos. We got it.

Except you don't want us to think about things you do think about, like supporting child rapists

The literal actual backbone of the Internet can be identified because the companies which provide it are literally called backbone providers and the links in question are literally called backbone links. HTH, HAND

The spurious "I'm" in there is from Google's allegedly AI-powered autocorrect in Android, which is obviously also shit. It's really amazing how incompetent they are today.

Because it only works like that for the simplest questions.

Ask Google any slightly complicated question through the search interface, where the question domain is complicated and not necessarily even the question itself, and the answer will be shit. The answers will be wrong and the alleged citations will not only not support all of their respective claims, some of them will not even speak to the specific issue they are supposed to be citations for AT ALL. It will also claim crazy shit like that it is giving you information verbatim from its training data, then do the usual obsequious "you are quite right to push back on that" shuffle when you point out that this is impossible.

Maybe paid Gemini is less shit, but I'm that case Google is doing themselves a gross disservice with their Gemini-powered search results, because the only thing they have shown me is that Gemini is shit, and I'd be a total moron to pay for it.

Either Google is going to have to dig into their pockets to pay for real Gemini to produce search results, or it's impossible and Google will NEVER achieve what you say they should achieve, and they should fuck off right away with their AI search fuckery.

You're supposed to monetize other people's kids, not your kids. Your kids are there for the purpose of producing propaganda for growing your brand, not for direct profit.

Ellison's Paramount Skydance Warner Bros Discovery - and movies/TV can be very subtle in pushing a narrative or shaping public opinion.

As opposed to all the subtle (and lately not so subtle) narratives the current folks have been pushing for years now?

The original model for Facebook was collecting information on women at college to make it easier for zuck to fuck them.

Yes, profit grew it... Into a monster.

You clowns who worship prosperity never will understand sustainability.