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Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturers

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  • 'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me'

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    Yes, the use of the voice was intentionally misleading. That's why it was decided the way it was.
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    And yet so many people still refusing to switch to Signal, even tho Whatsapp is officially declared unsave by the government.
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    Same, especially when searching technical or niche topics. Since there aren't a ton of results specific to the topic, mostly semi-related results will appear in the first page or two of a regular (non-Gemini) Google search, just due to the higher popularity of those webpages compared to the relevant webpages. Even the relevant webpages will have lots of non-relevant or semi-relevant information surrounding the answer I'm looking for. I don't know enough about it to be sure, but Gemini is probably just scraping a handful of websites on the first page, and since most of those are only semi-related, the resulting summary is a classic example of garbage in, garbage out. I also think there's probably something in the code that looks for information that is shared across multiple sources and prioritizing that over something that's only on one particular page (possibly the sole result with the information you need). Then, it phrases the summary as a direct answer to your query, misrepresenting the actual information on the pages they scraped. At least Gemini gives sources, I guess. The thing that gets on my nerves the most is how often I see people quote the summary as proof of something without checking the sources. It was bad before the rollout of Gemini, but at least back then Google was mostly scraping text and presenting it with little modification, along with a direct link to the webpage. Now, it's an LLM generating text phrased as a direct answer to a question (that was also AI-generated from your search query) using AI-summarized data points scraped from multiple webpages. It's obfuscating the source material further, but I also can't help but feel like it exposes a little of the behind-the-scenes fuckery Google has been doing for years before Gemini. How it bastardizes your query by interpreting it into a question, and then prioritizes homogeneous results that agree on the "answer" to your "question". For years they've been doing this to a certain extent, they just didn't share how they interpreted your query.
  • Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste out of the brain

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    Segue into sexy time
  • Tide42 – A Fast, Minimalist CLI IDE for Terminal-Centric Devs

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    Emacs has panes. Is this supposed to imitate a fraction of the holy power?
  • Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude

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    I have to say that you just have to sayed something up
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    Premium supported. You get plenty with the free tier, but you get lots more with paid.
  • Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way

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    Or just use Linkwarden or Karakeep (previously Hoarder)