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Posted by sancho-panza 5 hours ago

When did Google get so weird?(sancho.bearblog.dev)
722 points | 380 commentspage 6
chupchap 2 hours ago|
Google did crazy things to reduce the cost of delivering search results and now they have shifted to AI overviews which definitely is a costlier way to present results. What does this mean for the company in the long term?
jas- 1 hour ago||
Reading the comments and all I can think is "first world problems"
kdkdjxiencjen 1 hour ago|
You’re on HN. Everything here is the absolute epitome of first-world problems.
8organicbits 4 hours ago||
This is a really good time to do a head-to-head comparison of different search engines. The last time I checked Google does not provide search results above the fold, instead showing AI overview, ads, and YouTube search results. Try a different search engine to see which one is giving you the highest signal results and what other junk they put on the page. Personally I use duckduckgo with AI turned off in settings, but it's best to try the experiment for yourself.
lol8675309 3 hours ago||
Once a day I tell my LLM that I find it's anthropomorphic responses patronizing and offensive. It's barely a program - mostly just a big lump of data. It's not 'sorry' or capable of apology. It's just gross.
zahlman 2 hours ago|
If you really feel that way about it, then why bother to "tell" it things, especially regarding your own feelings?
xnx 3 hours ago||
I added "tweets" to the authors original search and Google found exactly what they were looking for even despite the phrasing being off. Pretty impressive! I don't think that search would've worked before AI was integrated into Google search.
pluc 4 hours ago||
Your answer is since AI. AI is making mostly everything worse.
GodelNumbering 4 hours ago||
As someone who loves (loved) to google movie, TV and anime quotes all the time, it is nauseating when stupid AI preview tries to engage me in a conversation.
mikgp 4 hours ago||
There was a post today or yesterday where Paul Graham and Nate Silver accused the AP of being woke for saying you shouldn’t anthropomorphize LLMs. But I can imagine there to be quite a few unpredictable consequences to encouraging your customers to project emotions onto your product that humans generally project onto each other.

I’m not sure SV is prepared for what happens when you go down that road.

dolebirchwood 4 hours ago|
> There was a post today or yesterday where Paul Graham and Nate Silver accused the AP of being woke for saying you shouldn’t anthropomorphize LLMs.

I searched, but couldn't find this. Do you have a link? Sounds like a totally unhinged response from totally unhinged people. There's nothing "woke" about wanting my word calculator to avoid pretending it's a person.

When I integrate LLMs into my apps that respond to user queries, I deliberately have my system instructions prohibit all self-referential usage of first-person pronouns. The system can only refer to itself as "this system", never "I" or "me".

Any chat bot that pretends to be a person just grosses me out, especially in a customer experience context. Gives off very manipulative and patronizing vibes.

mikgp 3 hours ago||
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866007
dreamlayers 1 hour ago||
With technical questions, I've gotten a lot more hallucinations from Google than from ChatGPT. It feels like they added the AI to try to stay competitive, despite them not being good at it.
profsummergig 2 hours ago|
AI has them badly shook.

I have the Gemini Pro subscription. The quality of its outputs are sometimes below those from the free version of Grok.

Hope they catch-up.

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