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Google is probably going to be fine. The web is going to get a bit weird in a few years and they're going to be right in there.

The web is likely going to layer up soon. As more and more people utilize AI it changes traffic. It's impossible (and undesirable) to keep training with current affairs, LLMS need to go out to the web to find reality and they need to do search in order to get there.

More and more they're going to get blocked from doing so via "human" channels. I predict we're going to get a sub-web. basically MCP but for websites, AI interacts with a sites content through that door, humans use http.

When there's a gold rush sell pickaxes. Forget Gemini, that's a money pit. Google is in a great position to shape that sub-web through chrome and it's current incumbent position as gatekeeper to the web. They'll be selling search deals to all the Big AI agents, indexing the new MCP-like layer so AI can search and interact with site information and blurring the line between your harness and chrome such that browsing the web is more like asking AI for crap and getting pages there in the harness rather than traditional browsing.

before you know it nobody will browse the web the way we do now and no agent harness will function correctly without Google.

While it's interesting to see which models performed better I wish they did a control. Gave the question to x number of people and had them provide an answer.

bad (or even made up) statistics have been floating around meat space since forever.

I get your sentiment, though the problem is older than AI, the convenience and market penetration has just ramped up the visibility in this arena.

Many books pre-ai were garbage but not at the rate they could be today. If anything people operate on greater discretion now than in the past because even the worst garbage still had a non-trivial barrier to entry, either sitting down to regurgitate your own garbage or paying someone to make some garbage for you.

There's also some historic precedence of this, the rise of Photoshop/CG and digital manipulation certainly led to a "is this photo real" to similar effect despite manipulations going back to the origins of photography. That acute concern was not as prevalent in my mind before editing became common and accessible.

Is browser compatibility that durable? I would think that both java-script and CSS would be subject to some level of compatibility rot against a browser from 2056

> Its a decent job and some one has to do it

someone has to do it but it's not a decent job. Content tagging and content moderation are basically the "ditch digging" of the white collar world and often comes with significant toll on those exposed to such content continuously.

nah, you'll never get there that way. Even if there was willpower to do it legislating these things is too hard.

What we need is some greedy lawyers and civil liability. Find a campaign that infected enough individuals, fire up a class-action lawsuit against the website on which the ads where actually shown (not the ad provider).

If they win the landscape will change. It would set a precedent for civil liability for infecting your users even when it's not your content directly. That would likely spook the shit out of the market, security becomes a feature.

good study with, entirely expected results? Variances in bioavailability are well known no? A block of wood has calories but you can't live off it. As for processing there's been papers describing "roasting meat and veggies" as a gateway to our larger brains because cooking makes calories in food more available.

Does a cooked steak and a raw steak actually show different values when measured with a calorimeter?

their chosen dishes also seem to conflate a lot of factors, like processing, vs flavor. it's known that artificial sweeteners can elicit insulin responses despite not being a digestible sugar, I've heard studies showing that "Tasting" in the gut can perceive the sweetness.

> The disclosure conversation—”I used AI for this”—is starting to sound like a cook announcing that the kitchen has an oven.

Think OP misses the point of that disclosure, It's more like the cook saying "I ordered out", Ie, they had nothing or very little to do with the output. Which is a good disclosure, now if an employee does own the output, then there's no or little need for the disclosure because for all intents and purposes it's content they've approved as their own.

This is also not a new phenomena, if you had a senior (whatever) with 15 years of experience and you asked for some thing, and they in turn delegated it to their intern they would either review and own the output from the intern or if it was something that could be passed on with only cursory review likely qualify that it came from said intern, which both gives credit, gives blame, but also tempers the consumption such that the recipient knows it's not directly a product of the senior (whatever) with 15 years of experience.

the only difference is now even the interns have interns everyone can delegate any task.

> Any project that sees a semblance of success will be cloned overnight many times over and will find itself competing with its own copies.

wasn't this always a risk with open source? also isn't that part of the point of open source? undoubtedly there are some forks out there that have become the new baseline. Besides, survival of the fittest. If some vibe-coded clone can compete, can manage updates, win market share, produce value superseding the original does that version not deserve it's share?

Personally I don't think it's all that trivial to maintain a large FOSS project, that vibe coded clones will simply not keep up because they were low effort and when they realize even with all the AI tools in the world it's still work to maintain a product they'll die off.

> what motivation remains to continue publishing as open source?

What motivation was there ever? prestige? money? accolades? Is that motivation actually gone?

Also closed source is not a protection anymore. look at Jev, they didn't even release the weights but everyone and their mother has a Jev-like model either out in the wild or in the works.

Aside from being a drop in a sea of games, first impression from the store page is pretty lackluster.

The character is, like a glass mug? not a lot of personality there.

The first video doesn't show a lot of interest, there's like 6 cuts in a row with the cup moving right and up making the gameplay look repetitive.

Overall look/feel is still very "Unity demo", a lot of what makes the greatest games great is not just their gameplay but the feel and details. Imagine portal without GLaDOS and a low poly un-textured style but exactly the same puzzles. It never would have made the mark it did.

Like I'm looking at the second video and there's these avocado things, are they bullets? enemies? looks like the cup has some large radius, fast orbiting, ball that just erases the avocados. like they don't splat or react, your cup character just lifelessly floats around and stuff is happening, it makes the fight feel sterile rather than engaging.

Funny, I was just thinking the other day that a Watergate like occurrence today would be such a non-event for the current administration.

Not sure how old the author is in the story, I imagine them at like 8-11 ish. I don't have kids so maybe my view is too narrow but of the peers I do have with kids near that range I don't think I know any of them that have a "computer".

many of them play minecraft but as far as I'm aware it's entirely on tablets.

Granted the vanilla experience offers lots of exploration and creativity beyond nearly anything I grew up with but it's still not the same feeling of roguish discovery described by the article.

Heh love that it has the star-field screensaver. nice touch.

I lament that these kinds of rogue explorations are less and less available to kids these days. Sure in many senses there's much more in the space to engage with, powerful tools like scratch and now LLMs to answer every question but I suspect most kids today will be nostalgic for some mobile game they have no agency to explore outside the rails or some online game that will ban you for cheating.

Contrast that with experiences like the author and the taboo joys of rooting around in the files and "hacking" something to do the thing you want.