You could imagine a Moore’s Law-esque cheapening of the tech that coincides with the business raising their prices. That might look like a continuation of simply “using the tools” on the surface, but on the inside it would spell a gradual, meaningful increase in margin

PLUS they double dip as they get extra search traffic for their brand from people trying to find the video

the forbidden fruit is more enticing

i wouldn’t conclude “therefore they’re the same”. they’re clearly not the same

if it’s a different approach to search and scripting, does that not mean it is a kind of search and scripting?

Take code. In a sense, StackOverflow is about finding a code snippet for an already solved problem. Auto complete does the same kind of search in a sense.

Take generative text. In a sense that’s the equivalent of making a query and then aggregating the many results into one phrase. You could imagine the bot searching 1,000 websites and then taking the average of the answers to the query and then outputting the result.

Does every LLM use case fit the following pattern?…

query —-> LLM does its work —-> result —> script of result (optional)

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also, i’d like to hear your story about the human with three hands

for example, fictional stories. If you want to be entertained and it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, there’s no downsides to “hallucinations”. you could argue that stories ARE hallucinations.

another example is advertisements. what matters is how people perceive them, not what’s actually true.

or, content for a political campaign.

the more i think about it, genAI really is a perfect match for social media companies

the social media platforms already measure more than enough signals to understand a users likely age. they could be required by law to do something about it

The whole point of going to a restaurant is luxury. I find myself turned off by restaurants that I loved before but cheapened themselves after covid.

I don’t want to eat out of plastic bowls with plastic forks. If this is going to be about efficiency, it is no longer about luxury and I don’t want to do it anymore.

Once the focus becomes convenience, the restaurant begins to undermine itself and accidentally starts to complete with more convenient (and cheaper) alternatives like readymade meals at the grocery store or fast food.

Edit: I should also add that going to a restaurant with a group of friends, sharing a meal together, and paying attention to one another - this makes restaurants somewhat of an attention luxury good.

I also want to add another thought to that: I’m so glad howtomakesenseofanymess.com exists, warts and all. I’d much rather it exist in some imperfect form than not exist at all.

We ought to be more accepting of good and imperfect creations, because that encourages creativity. We need more of this!

the first time i realized Google had a problem was when i used ChatGPT to search for Youtube videos, and compared to Youtube’s search, it was an order of magnitude easier to find the exact videos i was looking for.

Hallucinations are not a problem in a query like this, because i have what i need to evaluate the results: did i find interesting Youtube videos to watch? did i find what i was looking for?

generally speaking, users seek to minimize the effort required to achieve their goals.

The "health food" of social media will be a product category where there will be market share to capture and whoever gets it right will be rewarded. Those users, like the health nuts of today, will know what there are looking for.