As someone in a community impacted by the deluge of AI slop projects…good. These are good policies, the overwhelming amount of crap being churned out makes sifting through it as a human, untenable; the only sane solution is to restrict it and ban the peddlers.

I doubt there will be plentiful fresh water either, in the former situation.

As someone with plans to work in the software dev sector, it’s just bad news no matter what. AI turns out to be magic, no jobs. Industry crashes because of the bubble, no jobs.

I hit about 1,250 searches per month on average. I once did 2K in a month.

Probably a good number of those are refinements on an initial search query. Like if I search for a movie title, but there are multiple that go by the same name, I’ll append the year the one I care about came out. Doing that it’s easy to get like 3–6 searches in a single minute.

Also Sony buying Nixxes… then deciding they don’t want to do PC ports anymore. These companies are clueless.

Companies have been very forthcoming with their AI use and development, actually.

And you can tell when it starts getting used. Suddenly the UI will be replaced with the ubiquitous Clod™ look. Then the bugs and awful performance start rearing their head. If you use programs, it’s plainly obvious that the quality of software over the last year has plummeted.

That last part isn’t even far off the horizon. The bureaucracy and legal framework already exists — banks and all manner of institutions will unperson you if you get associated with a “terrorist” organization; so all needs is to classify some domestic nonprofit as a terrorist organization, and bam, all involved or who’ve donated become unpersoned.

China has 1 billion more people than the US. And they’re graduating PhDs in STEM at twice the rate.

Frankly, if you don’t expect them to surpass the US in the coming decades, you’d have to be delusional, the numbers bare it out. A billion more people.

We’ve basically got to wait for Anthropic and OpenAI to actually IPO before any of this can get started properly. Once there’s a public expectation for profit from the two biggest AI labs, then the market will start acting against them. We can hope, at least.

As someone in the same position, it’s a difficult line to manage.

I’ve criticized Kagi before, but it’s still unfortunately the best model for search on the market. I pay them money, they give me search results. As the prior post said, they’ve introduced switches to disable all of the AI. And if you believe what they’ve said about costs, then search is more expensive for them than AI — so if you use a lot of search (as I do, ≈1.2K/Mo), and don’t rack up AI usage, then that money isn’t going to AI, viewed in a vacuum of course.

Reddit has additionally deteriorated because it’s pushing more and more algorithmic content surfacing. The home page there is now closer to a facebook feed than the old default ‘Hot’ sorting. You also get pushed random subs and posts at the bottom of pages. Comments are also buried or surfaced depending on some algorithm not directly tied to upvotes.

Plus a ton of the users are now coming from mobile and are “app first”.

Is this substantiated?

At this point for many projects it’s now depressingly, a matter of degree.