Imagine walking up to someone 15 years ago and going
"Hey, in the future Google will just flat out make shit up sometimes"
"What"
"Yeah, like there will be a time where you can search for a movie that doesn't exist, and it'll show you trailers, articles discussing it, who's directing it, interviews from the actors, and all of it will just be completely fake and presented as real"
"What the hell are you talking about"
"Yeah and it won't just be Google either, Microsoft and other big companies will be touting it as a revolution worth billions of dollars, as their products make shit up on the spot thousands of times a day"
"Dude, are you high"
"Entire product lines will be rebranded around their lightning fast make-shit-up technology, and they'll even try to sell this making shit up as a creativity tool for writers and artists"
​ "Get the fuck away from me, I'm calling the police"
@frawst we would simply go "oh, so Cuil wins out at the end, huh?" https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/113030780516405883
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for those who don't know, cuil was an ex-googler's attempt to try and do basically this same LLM bullshit back in the 2010s, and it went exactly the same kind of sideways, only, we didn't all collectively fucking fall for it back then: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/06/09/cpedia-a-spam-blog-disguised-as-an-encyclopedia/ https://onefoottsunami.com/2010/04/12/the-mechanized-madness-of-cuils-cpedia/

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@atax1a @frawst Wait, is that what Cuil Theory for ranking departure from reality is in reference to?
@frawst I miss the optimism of late 90s and early 00s internet; the modern version sucks

@frawst "We already have that, it's called Tumblr."

"Yeah but now it's everywhere, machines, and not funny."

"Ooooooooooh."

@frawst
I am from now on calling AI as MSU
@frawst idk I'm pretty sure I'd be like, "hmm not how I expected 'don't be evil' to turn out, but not far off either".