Post #2746923
2026-05-21 14:59 UTC
Replies (31)
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@litherland@typo.social 2026-05-21 15:13
@colinmford@typo.social Yikes.
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@JTDType@typo.social 2026-05-21 15:14
@colinmford@typo.social I’m going back to selling fonts on cds at book fairs.
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@Razemix@mamutovo.cz 2026-05-21 19:21
@colinmford@typo.social What a time to be alive… 😫
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@BillySmith@social.coop 2026-05-21 19:22
@colinmford@typo.social And this just guarantees that no-one will be able to trust the results. Google just destroyed their Search market. 🤦
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@max@gruene.social 2026-05-21 19:22
@colinmford@typo.social Ad auctions were already bad, this is insanity.
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@triple@typo.social 2026-05-21 19:26
@colinmford@typo.social brrrrrr
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@merospit@infosec.exchange 2026-05-21 19:26
@colinmford@typo.social This explains their recent oddness. To escape the electricity costs they are going to make consumers generate the results locally with their 3GB inbuilt Chrome model... And to quantify fraud with this new distributed scheme they want recaptcha to know about every mobile device on earth...
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@Corax42@mastodon.social 2026-05-21 19:59
@colinmford@typo.social Who in his right mind would use that kind of search engine? Are they just banking on people being too stupid to change defaults?
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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social 2026-05-21 20:17
@colinmford@typo.social My bet is the highest bidders will be the ones with the lowest model costs. IE they would not have a model at all, just a string they want to inject into your output when they see some keywords in the text input.
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@kosure@mas.to 2026-05-21 21:41
@colinmford@typo.social 🤮
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@wcbdata@vis.social 2026-05-21 21:49
@colinmford@typo.social omfg what a bunch of garbage. AI is over.
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@apLundell@timeloop.cafe 2026-05-21 22:00
@colinmford@typo.social Seems like a potential winning move would be to allow the opposing advertiser to craft a sentence, and then at the very end when it tries to add a period, you bid to append something stupid. "Coca-Cola is a delicious and refreshing beverage FOR MORONS!" AI might be about to get even more hilarious.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com 2026-05-21 22:33
@colinmford@typo.social We live in hell.
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-05-21 22:38
@colinmford@typo.social ...and now from a word from our official sponsor.
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@mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social 2026-05-21 22:41
@colinmford@typo.social So it's just a giant ponzi scheme.
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@mhkohne@mastodon.social 2026-05-21 22:50
@colinmford@typo.social This is...not going to be a thing. Real advertisers want to control their message, and this...doesn't.
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@solitha@mastodon.social 2026-05-22 00:41
@colinmford@typo.social So.... FrAInkenads?
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@sandbender@mastodon.social 2026-05-22 00:53
@colinmford@typo.social Sounds like a great idea for a garden path sentence generator, I guess?
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@QuarkMaker@mastodon.social 2026-05-22 00:56
@colinmford@typo.social Demonstrating yet again that, when it comes to the Golden Rule, whomever has the gold makes the rules. Who'd have thought they would have expressed this, publicly, in such a literal manner.
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@troy_frizzell@mstdn.social 2026-05-22 01:04
@colinmford@typo.social Hmm. Well, I WAS simply not using Chrome or Google. Now, I will be deleting them from my computers and phone.
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@lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster 2026-05-22 01:59
@colinmford@typo.social this seems to imply that a bad actor with a lot of money could bias all the google search results for particular questions or topics, right?
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@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-22 03:02
@colinmford@typo.social LoL get fucked google.
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@mainframed767@infosec.exchange 2026-05-22 03:06
@colinmford@typo.social hell yeah, this sucks
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@brulzki@hachyderm.io 2026-05-22 03:32
@colinmford@typo.social What's that game where you sit in a circle and make up a story where each person adds the next word to the sentence? This sounds like the corporate LLM version of that
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@JackMexa4@mastodon.social 2026-05-22 05:06
@colinmford@typo.social We rather build another internet from scratch. #AnotherInternet
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@teilweise@layer8.space 2026-05-22 08:27
@colinmford@typo.social This is doomed to suffer from Tourette syndrome …
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@Shadowfetch@indieweb.social 2026-05-22 13:00
@colinmford@typo.social This sounds like an absolute nightmare for client-side parsing. Imagine trying to build a reliable UI when the semantic meaning of your API response changes mid-sentence based on who won the latest micro-auction.
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@Mimesatwork@wandering.shop 2026-05-22 14:33
@colinmford@typo.social This sounds like the worst idea anyone's ever had and 100% a scam
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@mcjevans@hachyderm.io 2026-05-22 15:16
@colinmford@typo.social I assume this is Google's attempt at a practical joke, like when they inserted random emoji into people's outbound Gmail one year for April Fool's Day.
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@nCrazed@fd00.space 2026-05-22 19:34
@colinmford@typo.social stop doing math meme ("statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged", "they have played us for absolute fools" etc.), but completely unironically 😬
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@FediThing@social.chinwag.org 2026-05-22 19:39
@colinmford@typo.social What kind of organisation would do that? Surely it would just be spammers and propagandists?