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‘Make this chat discoverable.’ Beneath that, in smaller, lighter text, was a caveat explaining that the chat could then appear in search engine results."
UX designer here. People don’t read the little gray supporting text. “Search Engine” should’ve been in the headline.
the ignorance required to lean into ‘AI’ in such a way all but ensures this
it’s pretty telling that I hear AI talked about and seemingly used most by conservative types, I imagine because it’s being pushed by influencers in that realm and the same people bankrolling ‘AI’ everywhere. people that are already comfortable with blind faith… makes a bit of sense
then you still have people who are used to challenging and questioning things still upholding skepticism and not trusting ai because it all reeks of shit
AI for next pope!
That and conservatives abhor thinking. They need someone or something to defer to. And LLMs can give them all sorts of moderately intelligent bullshit they’ve come to expect . From their leaders and politicians. But better and faster. With possibly even less accuracy.
Apparently these people ticked a box saying “allow this chat to be indexed by search engines” and were surprised when their chats were indexed by search engines?
Where is that box ?
even here
It’s not there either
It’s in the article, it said it was a short lived experiment.
I remember seeing the check box option appear to directly index to google, this explains why I can’t find it anymore.
I tried searching unique things in my shared text and couldn’t find any of them on the goog
Are these the same users that think the sycophant machine really loves them?
Well I’m shocked more people don’t ignore the flashing lights at train stations and just drive into the tracks right in front the trains frankly.
They kind of do.
unrelated but kinda related - I’m a firefighter. Often seen folks driving toward the scene lights like moths. Can be sketchy sometimes. I suspect it’s the collimated leds just piercing into the brains of the already distracted drivers.
Target fixation. If you’re looking at something, you drift towards it.
Seems like a skill issue to be honest. Bunch of boomers checking boxes they dont understand, since thats entirely optional thing to create. Those public links arent created by themselves.
Says in the article the users clicked “share chat” then shared the links with others on services like What’s App.
Sounds like What’s App should get some flack for this too.
When you share something it’s not private anymore! More news at 23:00!
Its one thing to not be private. Its an entirely different thing for that thing to be crawled, indexed and published on the world’s biggest catalogue
Yep, and when you click a button that liteally says “make this discoverable on search engines” which is off by defualt, its the later.
When it’s chats with LLMs trained on this very type of data, it’s mostly the user’s fault. Of course, executives of LLM companies should still rot in prison.
It’s totally avoidable if you don’t use it, but I think the onus is mostly on the companies for advertising these chat bots as like, a friendly personal assistant when that’s absolutely not what they are. Like all “AI” shit, it runs mostly on consumer deception.
Not on the internet it’s not.
Oh no. Anyway.
My only thought is “no shit”
lol this was on purpose
how are they shocked, when they also get blog posts, and other posts being summarized on the AI search?
Omg! Now everyone will know about my erectile dysfunction!
Shocked, shocked I tell ya.
Insert Casablanca.gif
FAFO.
I mean, we knew this…
