I don’t think that’s the full story.

How often do you think people ask Google a question, either to the assistant or just in the search bar and get served the answer scraped directly into the search results, and never need to actually click into the article at all?

Facebook does this too.

Between that and needing to adjust ones journalism style to appease click throughs and the algorithm just to get eyes on ads, dilutes the quality of the write ups as an added problem.

I think making social media pay might be misguided, but there is definitely a problem, maybe even a form of plagiarism committed by alot of these social media giants by taking other people’s work and serving it up directly, and summarized on their own sites next to a link that many people won’t click on. It is after all in their best interest to get you to stay on the feed feeding.

Reddit is absolutely guilty of this too. It’s just that we happily do it for them and create TLDR bots and the like.

It’s absolutely fair if Google is populating their feeds with weather, news and other content from other peoples hard work, and then having the balls to serve up ads, that these websites should have a right to claim a cut of the advertising or not have the information shown.

Coincidentally Ive gotten back in to Star Craft 2. Still a banger of a game! I hope that the franchise survives.

Holy shit what a bunch of blistering thunder cunts. I hope Microsoft guts them.

I meant what I said! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wish I could upvote tits twice

What is the floor made of?

What is that wire that seems to clip through the solar panel?

What is that plant theat is draped over it like a creeper? Asparagus? String of Pearls?

What happens if it rains, is this whole set up under cover?

Name one product in the fridge

How does one water plants all over an electrical appliance?

How far away is the background?

What time of day is it, and who places a device that needs solar in an area seemingly with such mottled light?

Can a microwave run on that much solar?

So many questions.

Yeah, when I zoom in, all the detailing looks good from far but individually seem weird and don’t make sense. Hinges are weird, the products all seem non descript or bizarre, the plants don’t quite look real, the shading on the pots are all off, the wires don’t seem to have logic…

If this is real, it’s a very sci-fi cyberpunk look, almost like set dressing. But I agree it looks like AI to me.

I’ve been grinning like a kid on Christmas for the past half an hour

This L4sBot reposts way too much old content from Reddit. Do we really just want to populate Lemmy with old content? It’s really killing this sub for me.

He had this attention before

Ditto. I’m on Kodi / The Crew + Real Debrid. Such a pleasure to use.

Mate, a bad actor could put today’s LLM, face recognition softwares and functionality into an armed drone, show it a picture of Sara Connor and tell it to go hunting and it would be able to handle the rest. We are just about there. Call it what you want.

Seconded. That mouse is fantastic.