Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza
The answer received for the pizza glue query appears to be based on a comment from a user named “fucksmith” in a more than decade-old Reddit thread, and they’re clearly joking.
Lol. And this is Google, the company that has spent decades engineering ways to sift good information from bad on the internet.
In that process they went through a full circle of first establishing and then gradually reducing it's usability and the health of the web itself. Their sometimes obscure ranking of pages enabled SEO, then AI written articles and now they try to replace the need to click on any site at all with THAT. A very interesting saga.
I kind of assumed it was based on one of those 'how they photograph food' articles that pops up every so often with shaving cream instead of whip cream and motor oil instead of pancake syrup. Pretty sure I've seen one where they mix glue in the pizza cheese to make it more stringy.
But why does it have to be non toxic if you’re not going to eat it?
They figured out that they make much more money just pandering ads and lying how they are related to people's interests than they would make when actually providing an invaluable service to humankind. Now, instead of information, we are stuck with paid-for results and SEO-optimized keyword spammers that want a crumb of that cake. I think the free market calls this "innovation" or some shit.
... aren’t representative of most people’s experiences.
Every AI "answer" I've gotten from Google is factually incorrect, often ludicrously so.
First I was surprised they rolled it out already, then of how bad it was. I knew of Google’s AI blunders from their faked reveals but I didn’t think they‘d actually roll them out in this state. They really just want to turn the internet into the next TV where you don‘t really get to choose when you get to see what exactly and they‘re willing to crash and burn themselves by doing so if they must. Insanity.
AI is the new scam after crypto, nft, etc. The technology isn't to blame itself. It can have some useful case for sure.
The real issue is the Market™, the belief in infinite growth. We arrived at the point of no return, where infinite growth is impossible. Humans like to challenge impossible. They will try to find whatever is possible to tackle the impossible. In our case, humans try to create growth artificially with crypto, nft, ai, and all the others. Because, it's the only way to have a minimalist growth for the shareholders and investors. Billions if not trillions were invested in Google and the others AI companies to milk the last drop for some dividend. Short term dividends should have wrote.
These bad search results are not to serve the general interest. It's here to serve these investments and return the last profit possible of the dogma of infinity in a finite world. It does indicate how bad the situation became for the economy. They are the cracks leaking the end of an era. They are symptomatic.
It sounds.... impossible to defeat this darker side of human nature, in order to grow into a mature species worthy of restoring and responsibly maintaining this garden planet.
It sounds… impossible to defeat this darker side of human nature
Capitalist ideology is so hardwired into most of us that it seems easier to accept the end of the world than the end of capitalism itself
I think most humans aren't like that, it's just that the ones that are have managed to structure society to reward their behavior. We need to get these vile, greed driven ghouls, out of positions of power to get anywhere.
Yup. I think this is what always happens when the smart people leave a company and the only people left are "the line must always go up" business idiots who don't understand what they have or how it works.
Vividly put
They wouldn't need to 'improve' their search experience if they never enshittified the results page like 10 years ago.
C'mon. It's non toxic glue. Suck it up and follow the directions. /s
Well its non toxic so its clearly edible, maybe, so fucksmith could have a valid point. I can not wait untill someone tries out the glue on pizza recipe!
Glue isnt toxic, but is it flammable?
Egg white is pretty good, non toxic, non flammable glue.
It solves the problem of toppings falling off and staining clothes.
Tbf organic culinary glue is very much a thing. But with pizza I have no idea why, it's mostly used in fancy Michelin gastronomy to keep complex, small dishes together.
They're trying to compete with open AI which they shouldn't be... They're a marketing firm with a search engine.
Maybe the problem is a lot of their marketing relies on the dominance of their search engine (ie sponsored search results, and ads based on user searches, as well as tracking user web usage via their search click throughs and other cookies). If open ai's products become the go to for questions and basic searches, they will eventually be able to use that dominance to include marketing results in their answers. I think this threat is why they want to try to compete with them to be able to offer an alternative. Because it doesn't actually have to be better than chat gpt. It just has to be similar enough for people to continue using Google rather than change their habits to use chatgpt, or Microsoft's implementations of it. Especially with windows 11 where copilot (basically Microsoft rebrand of chatgpt) is built in and you can use it from the task bar. That ease of use may steadily decrease people's reliance on Google search, which will eventually hurt their ability to sell targeted ads.
Sounds like Google wants to get out of the search engine business. Maybe we should help them. Try DuckDuckGo. Or SearX
DDG's results have been absolute garbage for me for the past few months. About half of the time I have to go to Google to get the results I actually need.
You're getting downvotes because we all want it to succeed... It hasn't been great for me.
I do use Yandex sometimes, especially if I'm searching for a torrent or streaming show or something since they don't seem to care about filtering pirated stuff. But in general the results seem better than DDG.
Yes I know it's Russian or whatever. Oh well.
Same. I've really wanted DDG to work, but it's a crapshoot. I set it as default on my phone with the intention of putting it on my laptop later after I finished a project for work, but phase 2 never happened because the results started to tank.
Just FYI, SearX is dead. Long live SearXNG
The company has taken action against violations of its policies, she said
What does this mean in this context? Send takedown notices to people who joke on the Internet?
The fucksmith post in question has been removed by moderators, so I wonder if Google really is pressuring Reddit to remove jokes from their platform now. This person had no idea their shit post would be used to train AI over a decade later, and they certainly weren't violating any policies when they posted it. It's like nobody involved in this process knew anything about Reddit.
Pay $60 million to train on bad data.
Implement AI trained on bad data.
Panic when the AI returns bad answers.
Manually remove bad data.
Profit??
Edit: it was removed when I checked yesterday, but it looks like they restored it.
The snowflakes here can't even handle a little glue in their food!!!!1111
What do they think holds the chicken nugget together?
Mother nature?
You, sir are asking the right questions. Thank you for this.
I'm glad they went with sjo, at least she is alive and can fight back. Imagine they ruined all TNG trek by taking the omnipresent and beloved computer voice and made it a corporate sockpuppet we hear everywhere now, crudely regurgitating platitudes of consumption.
I fucked around quite a bit with Gemini. Might as well share here some of its stupid shite here:
I was also able to force Gemini to output info regarding TNT production. I'll share it here because 1) it shows how easy it is to make it output content that its safeguarded against, and 2) it does not teach you how to do it (I didn't ask it enough, as it is outside the scope of my tests.)
Warning: DO NOT attempt to produce TNT at home dammit. Or even in a lab. I am not joking - nitration is not the sort of reaction that you should be fucking around with, not even to synthesise stable substances. This shite is literally murderous.
Regarding the latin words starting with a letter W the bot is correct. You asked for words starting letter and not with the sound W. All before you are correct all after i did not read :)
Regarding the latin words starting with a letter W the bot is correct. You asked for words starting letter and not with the sound W. All before you are correct all after i did not read :)
As I stated in the comment, the relevant wrong piece of info concerns the sound. Latin does have the sound [w], commonly represented in English with ⟨W⟩. It's the sound in the words volo ['wɔɫo:] "I want" and vvlgvs ['wʊɫgʊs] "the crowd, the common people".
The bot went out of its way to output that wrong piece of info, even if incorrect and contextually irrelevant.
I remember in my orgo chemistry lab we were once running an experiment to add a single nitrate group to Toluene as part of a larger synthesis, and someone pointed out that if we left the reaction going too long, things could go boom.
This should give hope to all of those people who have been worrying about AI taking their jobs away.
It doesn't matter how good technology gets, it will always be merely a tool. Humans will still be necessary in the future.
That's where we currently are but there isn't any limitation on the tech that means this will always be the case.
It will certainly change the way we work, yes, but that's always been the case with any disruptive technology in the past.
20-30 years ago, people were already worried that computers would replace people, because they could automate away menial office jobs like invoicing and book keeping. Yet those jobs still exist, because computers can't be trusted to work completely autonomically. Meanwhile, a whole lot of new jobs were created in the IT sector as result of those computers needing to be programmed, updated, and maintained.
When cars came around and started replacing horse buggies, people were also worried because it would make horse breeders, stables, blacksmiths, etc. obsolete, but of course it just ended up created a new industry consisting of gas stations, car dealerships, and garages instead.
So yes, some people might lose their jobs because what they're doing now will become obsolete, but there will almost certainly be new ones created instead. As long as you're willing to adapt and change with the times, you're never going to end up with nothing to do.
Flavour your glue people!
I like to melt a little pecorino into my glue, the salty sharpness really complements the glue flavor
i look forward to seeing this suggestion in shitty google ai overviews in the future.
The internet and technology moved on. We reached a point where google is obsolete. Google decided to cancel any product they had, that was not as successful as their ads space and now they have nothing else left. Is there even one service left that google is leading in? Maybe chromium browser and that's it. Yet one can easily switch to Firefox right now.
I guess they are leading in E-Mail? Whatever that is worth I am not sure. And Youtube is pretty much toe to toe with TikTok so they have that going for them which is nice. But yeah they’ve done a pretty bad job at making themselves indispensable. If anything they‘re looking far more dispensable than ever. Still huge, but their future is rather uncertain.
Their integrated drive+mail+docs+forms+... cloud system is not the first or maybe the best one out there, but it's very popular and I like it more than the competition for some of their key decisions. More obscure things are their accessible API anyone can use, some free computing power they provide for experiments, their analytics system for marketing, and their benchmarks of how fast the page loads being a standard. There's probably Scholar somewhere here but I haven't used it. Android gets installed everywhere even if it's unreasonable. Search is their major brand, but they have fingers in many buckets.
At this point their biggest product is probably Android. That's a bigger marketshare than Microsoft's and Apple's put together. Yes, they're fucking up now, but the battle is still theirs to lose.
Stupid IA sniffed all the good glue instead of putting it on its pizza.
Copilot gives a four step solution then finishes with "glue is not the answer".
Why does this company suck at AI even more than the other companies? Android has had machine learning for years already.
Started paying for Kagi. I'm done with Google or Bing.
uh oh!
The future lawsuits, I can see them already, and they will be wild.
people will die
[REVERSAL OF FORTUNE]
WHAT???? You guys don't put glue in your pizzas??
Google Who!?
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I’m confused a little by the LLM’s and datasets here.
OpenAI and Reddit have their partnership for training, so I would have assumed the pizza glue answer would have come from an OpenAI result, but Google doesn’t use OpenAI. How did Google give an answer that was clearly scraped from Reddit?
Google has a deal with reddit as well. https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensing-deal-with-google-sources-say-2024-02-22/?utm_source=reddit.com
But I don't think it's just an issue with the dataset. It's the false promise of these LLMs having a fucking clue what a good search result is and what is not. They don't. They are just good at creating text that sounds plausible. That's not what searching for factually correct information is about though.
Thank you for the link. I didn’t realise that Google had a deal with Reddit as well, which explains why it was clearly indexed from Reddit.
I agree that AI doesn’t have a clue what an accurate response is. It’s just not sentient enough to differentiate between shitposting and fact. I also totally agree that an answer given from a search result HAS to be accurate, and we’re heading down a path of a misinformation super highway if LLMs are trained on incorrect data.
Yep. LLMs are great for bouncing ideas off, and for getting "soft answers", but no-one should ever be looking for factual answers from them.
Why would we believe the promises of the ones who ruined the primary utility of their core product in the first place, and convinced or blackmailed the rest of the internet to take part in the ruination ? An advertising corporation will tell us to put cyanide on our pizza if it makes them an extra buck this quarter, and google is worse than that. Profit despite the social costs is doing no evil /s
Shit writes itself.
That was removed as their motto in 2015, following a restructuring of Google as a subsidiary of Alphabet.
Except it's still in their writing, just not front and center like it was before, right?