It's a self defeating strategy as more people turn to ai, less content gets produced so ai becomes static.
I truly believe the token model will kill AI, it will become too expensive
this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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It's the same arc every monopolistic corporation has taken before it, AI is just accelerating the pace of consuming your customer/product because profits must always increase.
There will be no large scale shift from these experiences because most people are either ok, apathetic or blissfully ignorant to the situation, the best you can do is to remove yourself from the exploitation of the userbase. Linux instead of Windows or Android, Almost any search engine other than Google, fediverse instead of reddit, etc.
Only a minute away until Google starts a Soylent Green subsidiary company
We more less vibe-coding and more coders with thigh-high striped socks.
I didn't mean to say "we more less", I meant to type "we need less". We need less vibe-coding and more codeers with thigh-high striped socks.
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We put this real question to AI Mode, "Why does Google Search suck now?" And you won't believe the answer! (Actually, you won't be surprised.)
The Chocolate Factory's AI search substitute offered this completely trustworthy reply:
"You are definitely not imagining it. Users, tech critics, and researchers have documented a measurable decline in Google Search quality. The core issue is that the search engine no longer feels like a tool designed to find the best corner of the web; instead, it feels like a vehicle designed to keep you on Google-owned properties or clicking on monetized links.
"The degradation of Google Search stems from a mix of aggressive monetization, an ongoing arms race with web spammers, and the disruptive introduction of AI features."
AI is gonna be the same path. Once people trust it, it'll stop mattering if it give the best info, what matters is if people buy products and believe advertisements/propaganda.
There just will never be as much money in providing nonbiased and accurate answers as there is in manipulating people. So as long as capitalism runs everything, the end goal will always be manipulating people for someone's profit.
It's not an accident, it's not "enshitification", it's the natural and inevitable result of unregulated capitalism. The only way to avoid it, is to heavily regulate capitalism. Acting like it's a separate problem that can be avoided without regulating capitalism just makes people think we can make unregulated capitalism work, if we could it would be working already.
Honestly I think Google is pretty fucked in the long term
Nobody google anymore. They just ask chat
Google knows that. This is their response.