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The concern here is that old search engines can give you links and you can go into them to verify the content. AI taking over our search engines hides the sources of information, forcing us to blindly trust the AI and wherever it got its information from.
Adds client-side validation, additional components and editing in Umbraco to https://github.com/gunndabad/govuk-frontend-aspnetcore - thepensionsregulator/govuk-frontend-aspnetcore-extensions
Heya! 🥳 Just released TurboXml https://github.com/xoofx/TurboXml a .NET library that provides a SAX like XML parser that can parse small to large XML documents with zero allocations (apart for an internal buffer that is pooled) and is able to accelerate its parsing with SIMD! 🚀
I can now continue my prototype of rendering some SVG by using this library 😅
In case you missed it, the GOV.UK Design System published a new major release of GOV.UK Frontend! 🎉 It's the frontend framework that gives thousands of UK public services its look and feel.
Version 5.0.0
– introduces a support model that follows the fast-moving browser market
– removes legacy frameworks and old toolkits
– improves performance, and
– makes it easier for services to make future changes that will meet the latest accessibility rules (WCAG 2.2). 1/n
Adds client-side validation, additional components and editing in Umbraco to https://github.com/gunndabad/govuk-frontend-aspnetcore - thepensionsregulator/govuk-frontend-aspnetcore-extensions
The concern here is that old search engines can give you links and you can go into them to verify the content. AI taking over our search engines hides the sources of information, forcing us to blindly trust the AI and wherever it got its information from.
We computer people have been warning about lack of transparency in devices, software and services for as long as I can remember.
It's happened with EV charging poles. And then people not looking and just going ahead and doing payments on that fraudulent site.
@jan
What I don't get with QR code scams on EV chargers. These things usually have displays, don't they? Why there is a sticker?
@zoetek @flxtr @jan @s1m0n4 @angelastella
This practice also leads to rampant use of junk domains and tracking strings. In my day you registered proper domains and created simple, readable URLs. Now they hide URLs under QR codes and append long strings to every link. This helps to confuse URLs and further obfuscate users from being able to look at a link/URL and quickly ascertain its legitimacy. They have created a scammer/phisher's paradise, at the behest of upper-management and corporations.
@s1m0n4
I think typing in an URL is challenging for non-techy people these days. Maybe because modern mobile browsers hide parts of the URL (scheme, randomly some third level domains). When you tap in the address field in mobile chrome, to edit the URL, the field gets cleared…
@angelastella
Google'll never fix it. AFAIR they announced about a decade ago or so, they wanted completely get rid of the address bar; that URLs should be completely hidden to users. Of course they got a lot of flak for it, so they are pushing it very slowly. And other browsers do the same because their UI designers think that's how it's done now. The fall from grace was probably to combine the address bar and search bar, even though this is incredibly practical…
@angelastella
Non-techy people will use whatever comes with their device. I don't really see how you can influence that. There are now people who have grown up with the Chrome browser. They don't question it. Such people are as likely to switch browsers as I am to come up with the idea of installing Danish (outward-opening) windows in my house.
(I hope I'm just unimaginative and disillusioned and that someone manages to make tech literacy hip.)
@zoetek
Yeah, but some rando could just put a sticker with their payment link anyways. Then you might not be tricked, as you find it suspicious, that it's not working with the app. But another person might scan it with their regular QR-code app and still get scamed.
I think QR-code is ok, as long it's shown by the Monitor and the current status and next step is clearly shown.
Perplexity.ai shows you sources.
Multiple sources, images, documents.
I click on sources.
Not all the time, but when it matters.
Hence, your argument is flawed.
I click on another source that isn't.
Paywalls are not an artifact of AI
But that of capitalism.
@n_dimension @ned this. It is a UI thing.
Search engines used to use link indexes, then algorithms, now AI. It is a technology incorporated in the discovery process for the search engine.
The relevant question is how the information on the SERP is presented to the user. Google will try to dissuade people from clicking on any link, because then they leave their site. A good search engine will encourage it.
@ned but there's a tiny "AI summaries can be incorrect" disclaimer in light grey text in a locked cabinet in the basement with a sign saying "beware of the leopard", so it's definitely the user's fault if they get scammed.
@petealexharris the tattoo should be on the hands, forehead, and inside of the eyelids of every product manager even vaguely associated with any search product in existence.
That seems cruel. Maybe just a sign in all the meeting rooms that the engineers can tap sternly and repeatedly.
@ned Source is everything! Search engines shouldn’t process the information the way they seem to be doing. Providing links to the source means providing means to evaluate the credibility of the data. Hiding the source (behind #ai or in any other way) means also the data is stolen and the source becomes merely raw data provider.
This is very short sighted to the search engine business as well - how long does it take until websites start to block this kind of data harvesters?
really, privacy is a huge concern.
today i was checking out the google photos for as local restaurant, and some old lady had literally uploaded a photo of a note that contained the full name, phone number, address, and DATE OF BIRTH for several 'friends' and family members. like JFC. it seems to have been up for months
seriously.
i was stunned. yes, i reported the photo
but things are pretty bad.
@ned “forcing” is a strong word. It’s not like Google doesn’t also show you search results (below the AI. And the sponsored links, many of which are also malicious).
You just need to scroll. A lot.
Seeing how many people blindly accept what comes out of <insert name of LLM here> as the truth... it's already the case that it is being force-fed.
With SearchGPT that will only get worse.
Das ist erst der Anfang. Wir werden noch mehr Betrugsfälle durch und mit AI (Automatic Ignorance ;-) sehen.
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