2026-10-29 19:56 UTC
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@elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2026-10-29 21:13
I’ve been trying out the google pro paid tier. It’s really shit. The only advantage over my local AI stack is that it’s way faster, and I can use it while my local stack is working, but I’m definitely cancelling.
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@tempest@lemmy.ca 2026-10-29 22:10
I mean sure. It’s still early days for AI models. They spent years boiling the frog that is the search user. They can take a hit for a while before Gemini starts taking money to talk or more importantly not talk about something.
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@anonymouspl@piefed.world 2026-10-29 20:44
They got what they deserved. Taking into consideration that Chinese AI companies are loosing heavily in the stock market - I am certain that it is time for the US as well. I bet that within two weeks from US elections AI companies will be at least 20-30% lower than today.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-10-30 06:35
they freaked out after they couldnt scrape more data from reddit, because they wernt producing anymore, because reddit is infested with AI BOTs, and regular spammers. because most of the people were banned ages ago.
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@LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-29 20:03
Here’s the updated scoreboard of AI-pilled promises - and what became of them: AI is going to make cost big money for AI-first companies. AI is going to make employees more productive wade through tons of generated slop instead of doing actual work. AI is going to solve all of humanity’s problems - cancer, global warming, all that jazz! exacerbate humanity’s problems by gobbling up resources on an unprecedented scale.
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@humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2026-10-31 03:32
AI is too competitive for anyone to make money at it. Last year OpenAI made a browswer to get ChatGPT traction, and Google “had to” do AI mode. “Making an extra $B is not cool, you know what is cool? $1T eyeball/query share”. There’s too much “hype metrics” focus to juice stock/IPO values, and AI bubble pop needs to shift from circular financing to outright cannibalizing each other. Deepseek is an incredible lab, and Xiaomi espcially and several others from China, surprising. US models are good too, but the overspending has no competitive chance vs open models, or China’s hardware advantages and progression.
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@moonshadow@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-30 14:49
Hot take: this is their plan to choke out smaller publishers who can’t afford to just eat these losses. Once there’s no more real alternatives they’ll start to squeeze
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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-10-31 03:46
Eh, I am afraid everything will just go to YouTube. I bet Google will buy Discord too. …I am not smiling at any of this. The destruction of the internet will not be a relief, as they ultimately own it already.
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@desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2026-10-30 10:43
get ready for ads in ai answers; the cycle of enshittification must go on to satisfy the shareholders
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@aesthelete@lemmy.world 2026-10-31 05:19
I was extremely AI hesitant, but recently I was just like fuck it, I’ll use these tools. I went on Google AI mode multiple times and I noticed: As long as you aren’t generating images, you can basically do free tokens forever on it. It has no ads. It’s better at finding relevant information than search is. I found a set of peripherals with it that actually matched my preferences and were not listed on the slop ratings sites. Then I bought it without a hope of Google seeing a red cent from the transaction. All of this is to say that…they torched their actual business with revenue to give away a largely ad-free thing that’s a money furnace and has such negative public sentiment that it probably gets zero traffic except people that are hooking it up to opencode to get free tokens. It seriously doesn’t even require you to login. Everything about it is so fucking stupid from a business angle.