No, that’s google. A leaked memo indicates that they deliberately made search worse so people would have to search twice and see twice the number of ads
AI companies lose money every time someone uses it. Even those that charge per-token
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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I refuse to use a computer or browser without ublock origin. No fucking way I'm accepting that poisonous shit they call ads.
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Omg please link
This is the entire business model for most if not all of tech really
If it worked they could be profitable already instead of continuing to burn billions of investment dollars.
They're burning billions because they're trying to rush ahead of the competition in capabilities. No matter how good LLMs get, that is not their goal. They're trying to reach AGI and there are no second places in that race.
Thinking that LLMs will ever become AGI is fucking hysterical, and that is what the shills keep saying is going to happen. They are trying to turn lead into gold using a stove and a skillet.
No money they have dumped into LLMs is going to contribute to something that could achieve AGI. They are running the wrong race.
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I think they know AGI is far off, and are setting a more medium term goal. I think they are just trying to corner the new LLM market that might emerge. Even if the bubble pops and 3/4 go bust, they hope to be the one that survives and gets to be the quasi-monopoly in that market for the next decade.
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That is just utter bullshit. Hallucinations are a by-product of how LLMs work under the hood, not an intentional design choice. An AI that doesn't make mistakes would be orders of magnitude more profitable.
The prevalence of hallucination in LLMs is a design choice. It is a result of raising the 'temperature' which is just fancy speak for randomization so it doesn't spit out the same text for the same question over and over to make it look like it has nuance and whatever.
If it was consistent they would be able to reduce incorrect results, but they want it to look like a human response.
Can you provide sources to “they want it to look like a human response?”
I have not read about that before.
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You guys, the truth is way more depressing. They are not even smart enough to be as evil as you're giving them credit for.
from Don't Look Up.
I partially agree with the idea that AI is the same as industrial revolution. Yes, AI is just as revolutionary as steam engine.
Except we are currently at the stage steam engine was in ancient Greece and Roman Empire - a curiosity too expensive to use for value it provides and too crude to provide anything better.
Luckily ancient times didn't have billionaires playing speculative gambling on economy by trying to push any new thing as something revolutionizing right now.
Let the AI flop now, wait a few centuries and it will return better.
Better in terms of using less resources would be great.
AI will cause next productivity revolution when demand for things that AI can make will heavily outweigh supply created by human workforce. This is not the case now. We automated work of artists, people we generally joke about being unneeded beggars.
Industrial revolution happened because demand for goods was so big, people would rather buy mediocre factory-made things than artisan-made high quality goods. Common folk currently do not have enough money to spend on frivolous things AI makes.
Also, when you get used to relying on ai, you lose the practice and forget part fo your knowledge and skills. So, if you try to stop using ai, you will first have a steep decrease in productivity as you have to resharp your skills and remember a lot of stuff, and that creates a barrier preventing people from going out
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And when we're done fixing, we're unnecessary and have time to eat the rich \o/
One can dream .. why not replace billionaires with AI too?
Unless you pay more for the better model, then it makes slightly less mistakes.
and then fix the new mistakes it made while trying to fix the old ones and
Not to be that guy, but that's some weak ass strawman bullshit.
Surely you can think of a more solid point of critisism than whatever that was.
Surely you can learn to spell "criticism" correctly.
Funny that, I've learned how to spell that word in four different languages. But mistakes tend to happen when typing quickly on a phone. Your concern and attempt at deflection is noted.
I don't need a machine to make mistakes. 😤
"Drug companies sell drugs to make you more sick!" vibes.
I use local AI models to improve my process. I pay zero, and they do a pretty good job of taking the grunt work out of my tasks
I use AI for first drafts of work frequently. I'm also in the process of building a chief of staff agent, which it pretty cool. I pay $30/month. Not bad.