lol i love that all of these news outlets are covering google scrapping search for AI chatbox bullshit in the most value neutral of tones.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

lol i love that all of these news outlets are covering google scrapping search for AI chatbox bullshit in the most value neutral of tones. just parroting their press release for them

y'all know this will be the end of your ad-supported website right? you *do* know that, right??

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

tech press cannot even muster any kind of scrutiny let alone pushback even when the tech thing they're reporting on is literally an existential threat to them

i hate it here

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@eniko Tech press is the worst. Tabloid reporters have more integrity.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dalias @eniko
Is normal press any better?
They also hype AI (or at least don't criticize it enough) even though it will kill their jobs as well

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@Doomed_Daniel @eniko It's garbage across the board, but tech press has been nothing but PR mouthpieces for decades.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dalias @eniko
yeah, the demise of normal journalism is more recent (but started long before AI), but OTOH it would be their job to write about society-wide implications for AI, pestering politicians about it etc - which IMO is more important than what tech press writes about the latest product

[kkarhan@c.im]

@eniko I see this act of cowardice by said press as a failed attempt of lickibg boots.

[shadowfetch@indieweb.social]

@eniko They really think they'll still get referral traffic when Google just digests their content into a chat bubble. I'm already seeing my app landing pages scraped and summarized, leading to zero App Store click-throughs. They're basically writing their own eulogies.

[snowfox@tech.lgbt]

@eniko IMO it's been the standard in the normal press too. Breathlessly repeating claims about cryptocurrency/blockchain/NFTs. Before that there was the company that claimed to be developing room-wide wireless charging through the magic of resonance, the company that was fixing power distribution because it was apparently woefully inefficient (failure to understand the difference between real and apparent power?). Lots of people claiming perpetual motion machines. Someone who claimed to have solved division by zero with "nullity". Theranos.

See also: Everyone publishing "rich person said this" as if being rich makes them an authority on everything.

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@eniko

so when informational webpage visits are mostly diverted to gen-ai summaries, what reason is there to bother to run an informational website? Just gonna host it for the bots? ‍️