redditmademedoitClosed apps catfishing as FOSS via Google's AI results?
https://piefed.zip/c/opensource/p/1040051/closed-apps-catfishing-as-foss-via-google-s-ai-results
In this case I think its probably a hallucination, but in the future people are absolouitly going to try optimising for ai search. At this point, it seems a natural progression for businesses doing seo(search engine optimisation).
How blatently catfishy that would be i’m not sure…doing it outright like that I don’t think would be as effective. Especially with FOSS stuff, the market for people looking for that and won’t check is unfortunately quite small.
Yes, I find this credible. At the same time, FOSS and Linux seems to be all the rage now, with big tech’s ties to the Trump regime etc. Even though it’s been nearly two decades ago since I first installed Linux (in the late 00’s I even had an awkward “FOSS as an ethical alternative to piracy” phase), I am not in the tech savy crowd that’s been mainlining this stuff for life – rather I identify more with the growing number of tech illiterate dummies that think “FOSS = good” because Pewdiepie said so or copy/pastes sudo commands that replaces half my boot drive with North Korean crypto malware.