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The enshittification of the web is nearly complete.
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Just make sure you doublecheck. LLMs are wrong very often. futurism.com/openai-admit...
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Happy birthday mate!
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Just for shits and giggles. Unfortunately Taiwan would be the Chinese Ukraine then. šŸ˜•
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Iā€¦ I donā€™t know what to say but itā€™s genius. And disturbing.
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You put the SEO in S(EO)talker. šŸ˜‚
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Youā€™re not wrong about that. šŸ˜
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Absolutely. As a Dutchman I actually found English an easier and much more pleasant language than my own native tongue. I started reading in English in my early teens and pretty much gave up Dutch books.
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Heā€™s written so many amazing works. One lady working at the museum took time to read one of his lesser known poems to us. It was so funny and engaging. The man was a genius.
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Laugharne is mostly known as the town where the poet Dylan Thomas (ā€œDo not go gentle into that good nightā€) spent the last years of his life. His old home is now a museum.
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Wales continues to be awesome.
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Also, this might just be the best beer ever. IYKYK.
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The hair gives me serial killer vibes but the neck really disturbs me.
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I third this. Wait.
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What the actual necknightmare is that.
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My new profile photo.
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That was boring AF.
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Or deliberately enshittify search so GenAI starts to appeal more to usersā€¦
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And yes that makes Googleā€™s crackdown on publishersā€™ affiliate content harder to swallow. Theyā€™re focusing on the wrong areas.
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That shouldnā€™t even be a QDF query. Why does that keyword have a news box? Google isnā€™t policing its news ecosystem properly anymore - cowboy sites have free rein while proper news gets increasingly squeezed.
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Do your worst. šŸ˜œ
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And TikTok. Let's not forget how that platform has radicalised a generation.
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not really, it sort of evaporates from my trimmed skull. Whereas my hair seems to gather it and then drips it down the back of my neck... ew.
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I'm not giving you or @mordyoberstein.bsky.social the opportunity to do weird photoshop shit with my furry-haired face. šŸ¤Ŗ
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Iā€™ll boycott it if it does.
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You may be okay with it but many arenā€™t, and I think thatā€™s a legitimate position to take. Thereā€™s no fair use clause in European copyright law, for example. Thereā€™s no other way to describe what LLMs have done as wholesale theft.
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Turns out, yes. Removed the word 'riddance' from my entry and voila, it was accepted. :/
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Obviously it hates me. (Or my adblocking Firefox.)
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Until the last few years, Google wasn't positioning itself to replace websites. When they started down that path, they rightfully were criticised for it (and sued, successfully, in Europe). GenAI is definitely positioning itself to replace the content it has scraped. And so what they do is illegal.