Why is every restaurant I go to absolutely a 5/10? Average food, average-to-poor service. I can't tell you the last time I went to a restaurant and thought, "This was amazing, I'll definitely be back." Anyone else?
The biggest issue I’ve always had with these companies, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, et al., is that they have a very “follow the leader” mentality.
Remember when TikTok came out? What did all the other social media companies do? “Oh no, there’s a new social out there that does really short vertical videos, quick let’s do the exact same thing so that we don’t lose anybody.”
What they should’ve been doing is pushing into what made them unique and awesome in the first place, and made it better.
Remember how cool Instagram was and all the beautiful photography from people? You’d go to someone’s page and look at their wall of images and it was like a total work of art. I miss that.
Now, it’s a bunch of 12 second dance videos and AI garbage. No offense to all the real dancers out there.
Google being the latest victim is caught up in the AI world and now they want you to use their latest search bar, which essentially scrapes the Internet, pirates our content, and regurgitates it back to you.
It’ll deliver what you want on the literal backs of all of our time, research, and money.
I believe there is an incredible future with AI but I’ve always looked at it as a helper, not a replacer.
People, now more than ever, crave human connection. We weren’t meant to do this life alone.
Now we’re being forced to converse with a robot on every single platform just because the people that run these massive tech companies want to follow what everyone else is doing instead of actually being a creative and making their platforms better.
I don’t know what this will eventually lead to, and still so surprised Google would go this route considering 75%+ of their income is from display ads on sites.
Regardless, the harm this will do to people who create, entertain, write, etc. content as a full time job will be catastrophic.
I can’t wait to get the complaints from folks who are going to make a recipe from Google AI to discover it didn’t turn out. The main reason why? A human didn’t create it, test it, taste it for themselves to know it works and it’s delicious.
Over time these sites and people we’ve connected with and come to love will fade away. Maybe only then will AI course correct because at that point they won’t be able to steal anything, because there’ll be nothing to steal.
Google Search as you know it is over
"Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times."
https://t.co/g4VhBhRzwZ
Log in to X, AI slop, log in to Facebook, AI slop, log in to Insta, AI slop, try to google something, you guessed it, AI slop. And AIs responding to AI slop.
An infinite death spiral of AI slop drowning what made the internet good: meaningful connections with other human beings.
While service in the food industry has declined over the last two decades, nothing did more damage in accelerating it than covid. You can get away with a broken sauce when the hospitality is great. But now mediocre food, bad service, and high prices are horrendous combo for restaurants. Need to reset the standard and pricing on service and costs of it wants to survive.
@sircalebhammer And I’m over here trying to teach the next generation how to cook! Hopefully a few will watch and learn the benefit of this simple skill.
As someone who researches, tests, and shares recipes for people to enjoy, I hate what AI is doing to us. Essentially stealing all of our work for free, repackaging it, and giving us zero credit and zero traffic to our sites. I am all for an AI rebellion. I've long said AI should be a helper, not a replacer.