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[alittlecrumbplz]

Seriously, I want to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

[thestuffedalligator]

[tiredadventurer]

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

how do you read "op"

original poster

original person

oh-pee

ahp (pronouncing it as a word)

overpowered (gamer moment)

something else

I can't read

Voting ended onJun 4

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

Blah blah sample size you get it

[crazy-brazilian]

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

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[astrayjoseblogs]

Is this how I find out?

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

[akindlyowl]

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

[midnightssea]

“knowing how to write effective AI prompts will be a valuable skill in the future” and what if I skip all that and write the email myself in under 30 seconds drawing from my very own biological database of language and rhetoric (my brain)?

[squeakadeeks]

i think what especially annoys me about the "learn AI or be left behind" slogan is tf do you mean learn AI. you mean "type words into a text box" ? "oh no its so much more than that, you have to use the right model and have a specific prompt that says what you want!" again. thats just typing words into a text box.

[astrayjoseblogs]

November of 2025 accidentally became my mystery novel month and I found one my favorite new cozy mystery series.

Thoughts on "Shady Hollow" by Juneau Black

[astrayjoseblogs]

Gave a few thoughts on Tales of the Valiant Starter Set

Tales of the Valiant Start Set and Adventure: Down the Rabbit Hole

[girlvasectomy]

just regular men

[barbreypilled]

when I tell u I had to scroll a week back in my twitter likes to find this video bc I genuinely couldn’t sleep until I did

[lakevida]

i didnt even know there were that many

[lakevida]

probably dont even need the other 1196 pics

[andhaveapleasanttomorrow]

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

[victusinveritas]