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When did Google get so weird?

1843 points • by sancho-panza • last Sunday at 8:12 PM • 1033 comments • view on HN

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Huntsecker • last Sunday at 9:10 PM

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CurbStomper2 • last Sunday at 10:11 PM

It started around 2015 when they went balls-deep into DEI nonsense. Prior to that Google was an engineering company. After that, it was a degeneracy. We still laugh at Google to this day, all the way to the bank.

hyperlinerapp • last Sunday at 9:36 PM

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IshKebab • last Sunday at 8:40 PM

We get it. Google uses AI. AI is weird sometimes.

Also I think you're vastly underestimating the weird incoherent shit that the average stupid person is capable of typing into computers. With no further information, I don't think it's unreasonable that that search was from a stupid/bored person moaning about Dario not coming over. Yeah kinda weird response but people like this exist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HXFurHCkP8

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mattlondon • last Sunday at 8:50 PM

Because you are in a chat UI now. This is a skill issue - when you change your mindset that Google is now a chat UI to a LLM and not a query engine any more, you'll get better results. If you try the same zero-context prompt with chat.com for example you get a similar "want to talk about it?" response.

Try asking it "Tell me about the "Dario will never come over" meme - give me some of the example original tweets" for example and you get a timeline, tweets etc as the AI overview. Pretty useful really.

Tl:Dr - just like people, you need to give it some context.

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kkkqkqkqkqlqlql • last Sunday at 9:20 PM

I know this may be my poor English, but, ignoring the main point of the article, something I find tangentially troubling about the issue is that Gemini does not mention the possiblity of Dario dead. Like, if I were a lonely person who has lost someone and the only "thing" I can talk to is Gemini, would I have to say Dario was unalived or something?

Or is it just my bad English?