You should read the 404 piece, it's considerably less sensational and doesn't flat lie in the headline. I hate Big Tech too, but this is very bad framing.

the hallucinations will continue until morale improves

to me, shaving Android off their business (suggested next step if this fails) would be way more impactful

After many years of people misusing the word Luddite, it's time to bring back its actual meaning.

for a stream of confident bullshit you can doxx yourself senseless, what a joy!

it's the link above: https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/

A bundle of people say they have a paywall but they don't, they have an AI-bot-wall which can be got around with a free account. I'd recommend it tbh because they are doing very good work.

I pay the yearly subscription to support them as they are very much a rare entity in tech media: independent, reader-supported, and willing to ask difficult questions of tech companies, not fawn over their newest doodads.

the world's most-used search engine prioritising an AI-generated slop version of a very famous painting is very much "technology news and articles" imo

I think that's very unlikely; this PR was delivered pretty much word-for-word with a different partner earlier this year: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox-partners-with-qwant/

imo this is just your standard PR announcement of a partnership between two known entities which will get people talking before they forget about it

building a profile assisted by a bot
meeting people mediated by a bot
knowing what to say mediated by a bot
knowing when to pop the question mediated by a bot
learning how to raise your kids mediated by a bot

brave, new, world

nothing of value was lost

that might be useful i guess if google hadn't shredded every tiny piece of trust we had in them

I'll take projection for 100, Alex

next up on our show "shit people never asked for" ...

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(some) alternative search engines use Bing because building an index is hard and the only project I know of doing this work from base is Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/

it's pretty rich in history as a lot of famous (and not-so-famous) art can be; it tells you a lot about the people living during a period, what they thought about the world, how power worked etc.

this is a very dismissive take on this form of art as a whole, and is the kind which really does help the techbros who think that this kind of work and effort could simple be replaced by machines

We are about to witness the most unbearable chatbot of all time.

the tech CEO to right-winger pipeline is well greased in the year of our lord twenty twenty four