> AI art is shit, kind of by definition anti-art, embarrassing to look at and cringe-inducing to be associated with.
I don't like AI, but AI generated images have use cases. For instance, if you program a browser game but you lack human artists. Then AI generated images can be useful. Many of these images suck and feel misplaced, but some are quite nice, so I don't think it applies to all of AI generated content.
So how is that AI slop garbage useful? It often lies, aka "hallucinates". And I operate within this Google-controlled auto-spammed text of lies when I use its horrible AI. The last thing I want to do is make Google even more powerful; at the least now with Google search being so crap, alternatives would be well desired, but oddly enough I also get crap results using e. g. DDG, so I think in part the whole www stack must have become more crap too, quality-wise.
I actually don't see it as there are extensions that eliminate this slop spam, but
I never found it useful for anything. Other than waste my time, back when I still saw it. Thankfully I no longer see that AI slop spam due to these extensions.
Google wants to build up a private web here. We already know this from AMP before.
Also, the search results are total garbage now. Just give it a try and you see how
useless the UI is, with AI results first, then tons of commercial go-to entries and
only then a few links that are often also totally useless and irrelevant. Google optimised towards crap.
We really need to get rid of Google. Qwant results are now a bit better
than before, but still not that great, and I hate that its default UI is
a clone of Google. We need more alternatives. Let's get rid of Google once
and for all - it has disappointed too many people now.
Why does Finland want to make US companies stronger?
This is the biggest problem with the EU: the EU as well
as the member states, are not really thinking strategically
here. Not just with regards to nuclear power plants but in
general.
That's double ironic because Google feeds off of ad-money
addiction, but here it also uses that traffic to ban
people from the evil Google empire (which is actually
pretty good, if everyone would be banned then Google
would collapse quickly. Without adMoney this adCompany
would be useless. It has nothing to do with the old
Google company before the adMoney inflow addiction).
Why do you make Google stronger by giving it money?
I don't disagree that these findings may be useful for other users,
who can now look more at suspicious bot behaviour - but all of that
money empowers Evil. Let's not let Google off the hook. Remember why
they went against ublock origin. They want people to use of ads, so
you ultimately contribute to evil harassment via such pester-ads that
further sustain Google's de-facto monopoly. This is bad from A to Z.
Well, in part you are correct but look how the billionaires set up Vance as the next "elected" boss right now - it is quite a lot in the recent media, how Vance single-handedly rescues babies at night while being blindfolded. I think these anti-people changes that are harmful to them, will remain. Trump is just the old dementia guy; Vance "my eyeliners are perfect" will follow after "winning" the next election. And then nobody will admit to ever having voted for him - and people will be very befuddled, almost as if an oligarchy runs the show.
Vance’s problem is that whenever he walks into the room at least half the crowd covers their drinks. He’s got absolutely negative charisma. It’s the same reason Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, and Ted Cruz couldn’t win the big chair - for all Trump’s… Trump-ness, people actually want to follow him. The rest of that cohort sets off people’s uncanny valley detectors - they’re just viscerally unappealing.
I'm of the opinion that billionaires are good for the economy. Wages in the US are about double what they are in the EU.
There are some aspects in which the EU provides a higher quality of life, but those have nothing to do with tax rates or the concentration of billionaires. They're more related to things like good city planning allowing for pedestrian and biking-friendly neighbourhoods (E.g. 50% of commutes to work in Copenhagen are by bike, where in the U.S. it's less than 1%.), old cohesive cultures, and better, more developed culinary traditions.
The billionaires here are just a scapegoat because the rent-seeking parties need a target that is naturally unsympathetic for the public to direct its anger toward. The National Education Association is the largest union in the US with three million members. 99% of its campaign contributions go to the Democrats. I haven't seen a single policy that it advocates that is actually good for society. If you look at the jurisdictions where the teachers' unions hold the most sway, they make the least efficient use of public money. New York spends three times more than Florida per pupil on public education and has slightly worse academic performance.
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