As yall have seen me post and post, I’ve been doing freelance AI training to keep myself afloat while looking for a steady job.
It occurred to me a few days ago that when training the AI, you’re almost forced to think in a certain way that doesn’t really jive with me, and my brain might not be wired for.
I suspect I’m not the only one, but if yall would read it, I’ll make some time to get something more formal writted!
One interesting thing I have noticed is that many of the “early adopters” are freaking out over how good “AI Search” is now. I have literally heard people say, “Google search used to be awesome, but now it sucks, but this new AI Search that I’m paying for is just as good as Google search used to be. I love it!” Which is insane to me. They do not seem to realize that a corporation has 1) given them something for free, 2) made the free thing shitty for no reason, then 3) charged them money for the thing that used to be free using a third-party app. And the tech-bros are EXCITED to be paying for this thing that used to be free. Not even realizing the amount of wasted energy, human suffering, and environmental damage is being caused by this unbelievably wasteful system. Truly a cult-leader based economy among the top 1% of earners.
Would love to hear a more insider take on it.
For a slightly more insider take, I’ve barely even used the former, but the free version of https://www.perplexity.ai/ is definitely better than free Google (low bar) due to the ads, scams, etc. on the latter these days that they don’t even care about