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. ↩︎

  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    4 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·
      4 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·
        4 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…