It's exactly the same as reading the reddit thread myself.

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Even Llama gives better results than Gemini. They're just perpetually behind everyone else. It's like they took GPT3 and tried to bolt one their search results, let someone forgot to make their search results not suck again for their own internal tool.

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Most AI's are really just digital dumbasses persuading people it's not a fancy chatbot.

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One of the features I thought it could be wicked useful for is printer clarity. When scanning or copying bad/old papers, hand written, etc. It could clean up, focus, or turn handwriting to print. That would actually be a good use for it IMO, ofc it'll fuck shit up sometimes but it'll probably be better than nothing at all

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My phone is starting to take better document pictures than my printer. Especially if I hold my phone steady at the right height. I bet if I used a 3D printer to create a stand to hold it for me. Heck I could buy a giant bucket or rack or whatever and bright high color index lights to further improve image clarity to ungodly levels. Still, the Samsung camera app with the AI features already being preloaded that will likely be improved in the next 5 years will just get better. Printers and scanners are completely a pita.

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Usually I'll see something mild or something niche get wildly messed up.

I think a few times I managed to get a query from a post in, but I think they are monitoring for viral bad queries and very quickly massage it one way or another to not provide the ridiculous answer. For example a fair amount of times the AI overview just would be seemingly disabled for queries I found in these sorts of posts.

Also have to contend with the reality that people can trivially fake it and if the AI isn't weird enough, they will inject a weirdness to get their content to be more interesting.

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Because they’re fake.

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I agree. People used to get so mad at me for suggesting that for some reason

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I've been able to reproduce some, like the "how to carry <insert anything here> across a river" one where it always turns it into the fox, goose and grain puzzle.

But generally on anything that's gone viral, by the time you try to reproduce it someone has already gone in and hard-coded a fix to prevent it from giving the same stupid answer going forward.

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ngl I kinda miss reddit culture. Not that modern reddit has that much of it anymore.

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Define old internet, do you mean forums, usenet, IRC. What exactly is the old internet?

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Old reddit culture was just watered down \b\ culture.

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Try why I eat Vim?

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My sides cant literally even

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I don't get it ...?

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I mean it's probably not true... But for me it is spiritually true.

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Oh, you mean like "the narwhal bacon's at midnight?" Or "Anne frankly I did nazi that coming" or "somebody summon unidan!"?

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I'm just imagining a Gemini dev reading this with a single tear rolling down his cheek.

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Back when it was 90% junk, 5% okay, 4% great... But also that 1% that was absolutely worth it.

Back when Schwarzenegger and T-Pain were basically the highlights. Victoria running the AMAs - I mean that had to be one of the biggest losses. That bird scientist dude and then the drama after he was caught alt upvoting.

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Old internet is where different people had different websites, and they'd link together with web-rings. People would explore and discover and share. The old internet was not dominated by mega-corps. There were no facebook accounts and no google accounts. It was just people sharing their ideas and interests - without trying to turn everything into a side-hustle, or data-harvest or anything like that.