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And, my Lorde, do I hate it. People's inexplicable need for celebrity drama has created an ecosystem around videos about said drama. This isn't new, but it's gotten a lot worse since generative AI has become so accessible. Between fake celebrity news and right-wing misinformation hubs, I've had to tell YouTube to stop recommending me so many channels at this point.
Keep on readin' on YouTube is full of fake celebrity stories and gossip⟶
But it doesn't know what the hell it's doing. Don't believe its lies.
Keep on readin' on ChatGPT loves to offer up its own diagrams⟶
Is this a sufficiently clickbait title, you think? Still, I do kinda firmly believe this is the case ⸺ that AI's overarching goals are rooted in the desire to replace paid, job-holding humans with much cheaper automation. There's no way to tell how many fewer jobs will be available in five years, but I reckon the damage will be great and the numbers very high.
I use Edge periodically for random situations where Firefox, the extensions I use on it, and my personal styles and scripts get in the way of site functionality. For instance, when trying to pay my electric bill each month, the company's website embeds a form hosted by their payment processor. This process doesn't work in Firefox for me. I don't know why, nor do I care enough to try to figure it out, so I switch to Edge and do it there. It ain't worth the hassle for a two-minute task that only happens once a month, you know?
Keep on readin' on 1990 Honda Prelude on Coilovers by Copilot⟶
It's wild that it's taken this long, and it still requires some fussing around by the user to enable the feature (for now), but at least it's here. And with it we can make the smoothest Google declutterer of all! Previous iterations here:
Keep on readin' on Firefox finally supports custom search engines⟶
But not that smooth since it kind of requires that you (a) use DuckDuckGo for searching to take advantage of their so-called bangs, (2) often add !g to those searches whenever you foresee bad results, and (d) that you install an extension.
Keep on readin' on Smoother Google search results declutterer⟶
Back in May of 2024, Google silently added a way to get back to a list of search results like things used to be.
Keep on readin' on Declutter and de-AI Google search results⟶
Elementor does offer a way to disable its AI upsells but only on a per-user basis. Talk about annoying, eh? Also, I needed a first post so this thing would stop serving up a 404 as an introduction, and I suppose this is as good as any.