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jasonkoebler.bsky.social • 276 days ago

$60 million well spent

https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

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karlbode.com•276 days ago

I love it here

so much innovation

zefram.bsky.social•276 days ago

Reddit is unironically one of the most useful places for finding info, but if you don't have a good bullshit filter you're going to end up embarrassed, dead, or both.

tracingvrl.bsky.social•276 days ago

Is Reddit laughing yet

cv-danes.com•276 days ago

It always all downhill when the IPO talk starts.

jrgilbert.bsky.social•276 days ago

AI will never write a headline this good.

ericafails.bsky.social•276 days ago

I spent all morning mad that DuckDuckGo wasn’t working, so thank you for reminding me why Im sticking with it

alifleih.bsky.social•276 days ago

I also really like that I can use its chat feature without sending any of my data over to our lord Sam Altman.

regularjim.bsky.social•276 days ago

DuckDuckGo has been a dream since I started using it a few months ago. Finally, useful Image search results again.

adhdgobl.in•276 days ago

I wish I'd had a similarly positive experience with DuckDuckGo. I always end up having to dig through search results for what I'm looking for, even moreso than with Bing. Google results are just pure AI-generated SEO slurry, though.

ericafails.bsky.social•276 days ago

I'm mostly looking for images for my work so the fact that a lot of the ads are cut out REALLY helps

maillardreaction.bsky.social•276 days ago

yeah, i've had DDG as my default search engine for years, but i still occasionally use google when DDG isn't cutting it because until recently the google results were better for finding something specific. no longer...

adhdgobl.in•276 days ago

2010s Google was the sweet spot for search. User data collection genuinely is valuable for search result curation, so there's a degree of that that I can accept as a necessary evil if it pays off for end users. But it's just all data collection with no up side these days, so screw Google search.

maillardreaction.bsky.social•276 days ago

yes! my friend and i used to joke that we needed to use google instead of DDG when we needed it to read our mind

talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social•276 days ago

Yeah I haven’t had any better luck with it than with anything else.

rwruedii.bsky.social•276 days ago

Duck Duck Go and Start Page are both great search engines.

ektachrome.bsky.social•276 days ago

sweet

seen4.bsky.social•276 days ago

After everyone learns to never trust internet search results we can all rely on tiktok or other social media to be the true arbiter of facts and more quickly rush in a vibes knowledge economy

gayerthanthou.bsky.social•276 days ago

This is so insane. Who has a 1/8 cup measure?

kmwilber.bsky.social•276 days ago

Anybody who cooks or bakes knows 1/8 cu equals 2 tbsp. The lack of measuring is not the insane part, the glue is. 😏

gayerthanthou.bsky.social•276 days ago

jesrcerulean.bsky.social•276 days ago

Standard shot glass, or two tablespoons.

seen4.bsky.social•276 days ago

Real chefs measure their glue with their heart

karabaic.org•276 days ago

Mine is stuck to the counter from the last time I used it, for some reason.

jennible.bsky.social•276 days ago

If your taking advice from AI, isn't glue eating already presumed to be the case?

trosen76.bsky.social•276 days ago

Oh so that's real

vidmaster.net•276 days ago

And yet Fucksmith has not seen a dime from this

cathibea.bsky.social•275 days ago

Google was asked can I cook pasta with gasoline? The answer was no you can't use gasoline to cook pasta, but you do want to put gasoline into the sauce and then, had you simmering red chili flakes in gasoline

carljanderson.bsky.social•276 days ago

Unsupervised Training of LLMs using Reddit.. What a fucking waste of compute and natural resources.

There are much better uses for this money than this..

markothecomic.bsky.social•275 days ago

Said Fucksmith: "mmmphhmhmm mmmph!"

dysamoria.com•276 days ago

Every myth around the tech industry’s “advanced technology”, precision, “genius”, and “value” is so utterly backward in reality. It's ludicrous and not at all funny because we’re forced to use and rely on all of this fucking broken-from-the-start garbage.

grants.social•276 days ago

Well, I guess I wasn't the weird kid eating glue after all. I'm glad Google spent all that money to prove that for me.

nih-llamas.bsky.social•276 days ago

The drop-shippers are already taking orders.

bresnanteddy.bsky.social•276 days ago

Elmfredo sauce is amazing! So creamy!

sniep.net•276 days ago

waiting for someone to propose making it illegal to post that kind of joke online because it could cause harm thru AI regurgitating it, passing the buck down to random shitposters as the problem

thaddeus.zone•276 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/thaddeus.zone/post/3kt5zvxabvc2o

lostdaysofabby.bsky.social•276 days ago

Amazingly useful results if you are in kindergarten, and have a desire to expand your paste palette.

sglewis.bsky.social•276 days ago

Funny thing is, I never saw that particular "hack" back on my r/cooking days. Why didn't someone tell me!!!

Seriously, as Reddit basically killed the third party apps, I nuked my account. It was already heading downhill, but it's gotten worse.

realchainlife.bsky.social•276 days ago

AI trying to solve the multi-tab issue as if its not the best of internet research.I can't be the only one who finds it therapeutic as well.

rwruedii.bsky.social•276 days ago

Meta is scraping tumbler for photo sources.

I seriously think 4Chan should consider poisoning the AI data pool.

juliagreaven.ca•276 days ago

Finally have a use for all that extra glue in my workshop! Question, is wood glue better for smoked dishes? Also, can I use my pizza in art class or is it only for consumption?

keeptheskyblue.bsky.social•276 days ago

You have to ask Google AI; us mere mortals cannot attempt such deep questions.

juliagreaven.ca•276 days ago

yes thank heavens AI uses fancy logic to validate the results it provides us and doesn't just blindly copy/paste with a sprinkling of CTRL-H to make it look original

jworrellwrites.bsky.social•276 days ago

And to think schoolkids used to waste it peeling off their palm skin.

rainroot.bsky.social•276 days ago

mmm extra glued pizza 🍕

zugernat.bsky.social•276 days ago

but is the stock up or down?

blkmsk.com•276 days ago

this really isn't a problem unless you think the internet is supposed to be good or helpful.

beerlaimbill.bsky.social•276 days ago

I saw this chatGPT example output in a webinar slide deck this week, and I firmly believe that the (incorrect) declaration that an elephant's stomach is "30 to 50 gallons" is an artifact of all of the "30 to 50 feral hogs" shitposts that it must've been trained on

crungeoneer.bsky.social•276 days ago

i'd buy that theory, it's got that out-of-element vibe of hearing your gramma kind of say an internet bit bc it finally hit facebook this year

an aside your flipnick is in my head (literally, he played a sleestak)

beerlaimbill.bsky.social•276 days ago

fwiw, i found a paper that put the size of an adult elephant's stomach at 60 to 75 liters, which is about half of that. (also i think 15cm is a bun-length hot dog, a standard hot dog is closer to 12cm long.) the machine can't even get the calculations right on a low-effort knockoff of an xkcd post

picklefactory.org•276 days ago

not even a year in and the best headline game in the business, well done 🫡

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