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14 points

Ah, so apparently Google has found a new way to make Youtube comments worse.

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13 points

That’s amazing, I wish I had that kind of discipline to learn!

I can’t decide what’s worse: the fucking insulting tone that sounds like I’m about to get a pamphlet about Joseph Smith or GameStop or some shit, or that the suggestions just make up opinions you don’t have and events that didn’t happen

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13 points

Day 2686 of wondering how much Google can keep enshittifying everything it touches before people catch on.

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I know you probably had no intention behind the number, but I just had to check. 2686 days ago was 12 June 2017. Pretty sure we’ve known about how google fumbles shit from way before then!

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12 points

That was the day when the transformer paper was released that kicked off this whole LLM shitshow. So my intention was just a little nod towards that. ;)

But yeah, the real number is probably quite a bit larger than that.

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11 points

That will certainly improve the mh of yters who already feel they are under extreme pressure.

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10 points

But users like engagement! Which means seeing that the person wrote a thing and not reading the thing and making a human connection with someone who is, y’know, engaged in conversation.

I know chatbots don’t track meaning, but I’m pretty sure words still mean things.

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Eurgh!

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