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Re:The role of the University is to resist AI by zo1 on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:16PM (#44426279)
Yes, and get bombarded with 20 ads, go through a few blog-spam articles about "10 of the coolest old-Saxon words you never heard before but use every day", open the website and get old-school popups in the form of GDPR spam, an unecessary Google account sign-in popup, and promptly close 6 ads before giving. But you're insistent and repeat it by adding Reddit to your search term, and maybe you get some sort of Old English-focused sub-reddit and find something, else you maybe maybe maybe go through and find a decent 2010's website that has the thing you want.

Or you just ask the damn AI that has gone through the useless corpus of the ad-ridden web that was infested and prompted by VC's, and somehow magically, through a lot of effort, math, and 150Gigakilowatts of electricity, and extracted the piece of info you want, and simply gives it to you with a bit of annoying fluff.

My time is precious, and I want to see the useless web burn.

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Re:The role of the University is to resist AI by lawlessone on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:21PM (#44426318)
>My time is precious, and I want to see the useless web burn

i'm guessing from your two paragraph reverse Unabomber manifesto above your time is not that precious.

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Re:The role of the University is to resist AI by add-sub-mul-div on Monday June 30, 2025 @03:07PM (#44426765)
> Yes, and get bombarded with 20 ads

It's wild that people don't see that LLMs are following the same playbook as streaming etc. and in time will predatorily monetize in every way possible. If you think people are trapped as customers because they can't do without tv shows, imagine five years from now when it's general thinking that people have become dependent on the tech giants for.

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