I need to step away from my PC – for a moment – because, although I have so much to write, the statements made in this video touch me too deeply and are too closely aligned to my own views and too close to the fundamental reasons underlying my own depression and disillusionment and burn-out.

Watch it.

Seriously. Watch it. If you are well briefed on the A.I. bubble and A.I. Hell, just skip to:

  • ~ 34 minutes to miss the demonstration of the tedious issue.[1]
  • ~ 38 minutes to reach the philosophical statements
  • ~ 39 minutes to hear about deception – the universal “tell” of A.I. scammers
  • ~ 41 minutes if you’re prepared for tears: to lament what we’ve lost, what we so nearly had, what humanity is losing, what is being stolen from artists ¬

(I need some space.)

  1. I assure you this video is not about content farms, SEO or the death of search but one might be mistaken for thinking that, in the first half. Don’t. It is worth your patience. ↩︎

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    32·
    2 days ago

    I’ll never forget the Kagi CEO tracking down a random blogger so he could “explain to her how she was wrong about Kagi” and harassed her for a phone conversation, and when she politely declined several times over, he just said fuck it and sent his arguments as a follow-up email because like hell was he going to take no for an answer.

    I don’t trust any company from some psycho abusive asshole who thinks he needs to do that kind of shit to prove his product. Half stalking half harassment for someone merely expressing their opinion. Why would I trust any product from someone who clearly doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about ideas like consent. If he wants you to hear his opinion, he doesn’t care if you don’t consent to it, you owe him listening to his loud stupid voice saying loud stupid things, I guess, in his view. Sounds like another Elon Musk, to me.

    So, in short, fuck Kagi.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
      13·
      2 days ago

      And besides… aren’t AI features getting pushed in Kagi heavily?

      Weird idea to use it as an argument against Google and DDG, but conveniently ignore it for Kagi.

      • DdCno1@beehaw.org
        8·
        2 days ago

        On top of all that, the last time I checked, search results were 100% identical between Kagi and Google. It’s snake oil.

        • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
          7·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, I tried it for a bit 1 or 2 years ago and didn’t see much difference.

          Only cool thing was the automatic summaries with sources, but the I found out LLM summaries are like everything else “AI” - unreliable, at best, so…