I’m not into Academia. But I’m aware of this issue. But I never understood why anyone will work (review) for free an article that is being used for a company for making money.

It’s literally working for free so other people get paid. Why?

Why make them flaccid instead of just killing them?

Most species are invasive and not part of the natural ecosystem of most places anyway.

Technology is not mature yet, we’ll need another 10 years til we could make those work.

They do not state the methodology used (paywalled is the same as not existent to me).

So probably it’s just not true.

There’s no way internet traffic hasn’t drastically increased. Also, domain price wasn’t what bubbled…

And don’t miss my main point. That is that if there’s an “AI bubble” it has nothing to do with AI disappearing, consolidating or even stop increasing if the bubble burst. Same as happened with internet and dotcom bubble.

This kind of bubbles mean that there’s a bunch of companies overvalued and will disappear once they cannot keep getting investor money without any real return. But it means nothing to the core technology that will continue and keep being developed.

Are you saying the .com bubble should have never happened if all small businesses just would have gone into a big site umbrella?

Also: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/19058/number-of-websites-online/

The raw number of individual websites have exploded since .com bubble era. So that argument seems not to hold very well. As you are somehow implying that there are less sites now than then, and that os simply untrue.

It’s also not true that the .com bubble affected the creation of new websites or the internet technology on the long term.

Don’t all bussiness have a website nowadays?

No one uses internet anymore since that happened.

AI bad

Imagine the world if USB cables where properly labeled.

There is still not enough people for niche topics.

It is the eternal struggle as more users come niche communities will improve or even exist, but general communities will get worse.

I don’t think America’s people are specially worse than other countries.

There are everything like every other place. Here in europe we have our share of stupid people. Have you ever seen people breaking each other heads every week because they have different football (I mean soccer) teams?

We have still Kings and Queens. They may not have political power (though they actually do have it) but still live like… Well… like kings on public money just for being born with royal blood. And most people support the monarchy.

Same results as any other metasearch engine, like kagi.

Last time I checked they admitted just being a metasearch engine. That their own search index was unusable. Which would be reasonable as a reliable proper search index is incredibly expensive.

I just checked their website, I don’t find references to their only using their own search engine. In fact they seems to be switched development to AI tools (that I would bet that they are just chatgpt API wrappers).

They also stated having like 20.000 customers. With that money and based on California there’s no way they have the ability to do any core development besides API wrapping other commercial services.

Some people asked for source: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

Fron their own web:

Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide,

They try to downplay it as their whole bussiness model is “we are not google search” though it’s pretty obvious that they don’t have the resources to create a functional search index of the whole web. Most of their results are filtered metasearch and that can be self host without paying a subscription.

This is an incredibly itchy and complicated theme. So I will try not go go really further into it.

But prosecute what is essentially a work of fiction seems bad.

This it not even a topic new to the AI. CP has been wildly represented in both written and graphical media. And the consensus in most free countries is not to prosecute those as they are a work of fiction.

I cannot think why an AI written CP fiction is different from human written CP fiction.

I suppose “AI big bad” justify it for some. But for me there should be a logical explanation behind if we would began to prosecute works of fiction why some will be prosecuted and why other will not. Specially when the one that’s being prosecuted is just regurgitating the human written stories about CP that are not being prosecuted nowadays.

I essentially think that a work of fiction should never be prosecuted to begin with, no matter the topic. And I also think that an AI writing about CP is no worse than an actual human doing the same thing.

I’m a shitty product because I block any ad that tries to display on my browser.

If I use ublock or whoogle I may not be customer. But the customer wont get anything from me anyway.

Because Kagi mostly just calls to google api and do a little filtering on the results, to remove ads, and maybe mix some results around with other search engine apis.

I can get the same results with whoogle, self hosted and not adding another “everything is a subscription” to my wallet.

Not with his thumbs that’s for sure.

I wonder if a software that just generate gibberish data could be made, just to fuck with them.