Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
from noodlejetski@lemm.ee to technology@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 06:32
https://lemm.ee/post/32916475

“You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness.”

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baggins@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 07:14 next collapse

Thing is, if it’s non toxic, then it’s possibly safe. Maybe not pleasant, but not poisonous. Just as bad as pineapple on pizza.

Wonder how long it’ll be before we get suggestions about eating detergent capsules or drinking bleach to cure covid.

Training your AI on Reddit was never a good idea though, you just have to look at all the crap on there to realise that. Let’s just hope they didn’t use Facebook as well, or worse, Quora!

noodlejetski@lemm.ee on 25 May 2024 07:20 next collapse

don’t worry, they’re already using The Onion

FatLegTed@piefed.social on 25 May 2024 07:36 next collapse

Blimus! I was (sort of) joking ;-)

dsemy@lemm.ee on 25 May 2024 09:24 collapse

This is like the modern equivalent of the encyclopedia that added wrong “facts” to prove the makers of Trivial Pursuit infringed on their copyright.

Jajcus@kbin.social on 25 May 2024 07:59 next collapse

Non-toxic glue would be starch or gelatine - both used as base of some 'real glues', both with valid culinary use, including exactly this use case. We just don't call those 'glue' in this context.

Vodulas@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 08:23 collapse

This is America, our non-toxic glue is made from plastic (PVA). It is definitely not for food and also not starch or gelatine.

dgriffith@aussie.zone on 25 May 2024 09:53 collapse

Also, things not designed for food use or human consumption don’t have to follow strict rules regarding their composition, and they’re not monitored.

Nobody is checking PVA glue for heavy metals or melamine or pesticides or any other number of things that will give your insides a bad day.

Nobody is issuing a recall if your bottle of glue ends up with ground up glass in it.

Because it’s not food, and it doesn’t matter, until you put half a cup of it in your pizza because Google told you it was a good idea.

TWeaK@lemm.ee on 25 May 2024 08:22 next collapse

Just as bad as pineapple on pizza.

Fuck you.

Pineapple contains an enzyme that dissolves flesh. When you eat raw pineapple, it eats you back. This is why your mouth goes kind of numb if you eat a lot of it.

However, with a little bit of heating the enzyme denatures and becomes nonfunctional. Thus, pineapple belongs on pizza.

darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 09:08 next collapse

Thus, pineapple belongs on pizza.

Get back on your medication.

Dymonika@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 13:39 collapse

Seconded!

Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf on 25 May 2024 11:50 collapse

Fuck you.

Pineapple is a wondrous and resplendent fruit. Sullying it in a melted grease puddle is heresy. Pineapple deserves better than that.

Duranie@literature.cafe on 25 May 2024 12:03 next collapse

Ham, pineapple, onions, green peppers, and jalapenos, no sauce. One of my favorite pizzas.

There’s enough goodness that you really don’t need pizza sauce on it, or at least I’ve never come across a sauce that works with pineapple. But the flavors and textures work well together.

Dymonika@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 13:40 next collapse

All of that is incredible except the pineapple. It’s like eating Italian-sausage ice cream or something. Both are great separate, but certainly not together!

pbjamm@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 14:04 next collapse

green peppers

The worst pepper. Everything you add them to just ends up tasting like green bell pepper, which taste terrible. Yellow, Orange, or Red? Magnificent.

ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 21:40 collapse

BBQ sauce works with pineapple pizza.

dgriffith@aussie.zone on 25 May 2024 13:43 collapse

I would like to hear your opinion on crumbed, deep fried, pineapple rings. 🤔

For example : www.redrooster.com.au/menu/…/pineapple-fritter/

Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf on 25 May 2024 16:22 collapse

BLASPHEMY!

Only Brazilian steakhouses may serve cooked pineapple and it must be grilled! Death to the deep fried non believers!

Vodulas@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 08:26 next collapse

Regardless of how wrong you are about pineapple on pizza (pepperoni and pineapple is always a solid choice), school glue is made from PVA, and while not toxic, is 100% not food. Pineapple is still food at the very least

baggins@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 10:48 collapse

It was a joke.

Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf on 25 May 2024 11:51 next collapse

Yeah. We don’t do that here

Vodulas@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 16:57 collapse

I got that with the pineapple on pizza part, but the rest sure did not seem like it.

smeg@feddit.uk on 25 May 2024 08:57 next collapse

If this one is real then it’s already identifying deadly mushrooms as safe to eat

jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de on 25 May 2024 09:57 next collapse

You need training material for negative prompts too.

revelrous@sopuli.xyz on 25 May 2024 13:28 collapse

Bacon, pineapple, and jalapenos. Ambrosia my brother.

jet@hackertalks.com on 25 May 2024 07:30 next collapse

Garbage in garbage out. We are falling back to the Yahoo categories curated view of the internet.

Google was really interesting when using organic link strength to indicate human curation. A web of trust if you will. But it’s been gamified to death at this point. LLMs have no capacity to reason, they just generate probable text.

Without a strongly curated training set it’s just going to become random noise… As we are seeing now.

TWeaK@lemm.ee on 25 May 2024 08:20 next collapse

We are falling back to the Yahoo categories curated view of the internet.

Given the wave of Yahoo and MSN repost news articles, where they’re word for word the same as the original source, this is far too true.

termus@beehaw.org on 26 May 2024 04:34 next collapse

The scraped AI generated SEO’d to hell tech sites that push their bullshit registry/driver/ram software overtook anything actually useful. It’s a sad state out there.

hitmyspot@aussie.zone on 26 May 2024 12:00 collapse

I wonder if that’s why Reddit data was chosen. Upvotes could be used as a signal for trust. What they forget is jokes comments often get upvotes.

DdCno1@beehaw.org on 26 May 2024 15:51 next collapse

It has always been only a signal for popularity. It’s the same on every other site with similar systems, including ones that have existed long before reddit. Even in the early 2000s, there were endless reminders that the upvote button was not meant as an “I agree” button, but that’s not how it’s being used.

hitmyspot@aussie.zone on 27 May 2024 08:52 collapse

Same as the link trust they used to use as a signal for trust. Again it was about popularity.

Trust here does not mean trustworthy, but rather higher likelihood to be answer that is sought. Calling it trust or authority as just marketing.

jarfil@beehaw.org on 27 May 2024 07:33 next collapse

They may also have missed the part where unlocking past post for rewrite allowed APIcalipse refugees use shredder bots to destroy a good part of the comments that actually held any value, replace a bunch of others with nonsense, and kicking out invested human curators (mods) in favor of generic button pushers (“power mods”) opened the floodgates to random BS, propaganda, and misinformation.

Smoke@beehaw.org on 27 May 2024 22:10 collapse

Not only that, but trust from a self contained community is not the same as safe for the general public outside of context. Imagine asking for a summary of the Gamestop shortsqueeze and getting an answer from Superstonks.

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 25 May 2024 08:20 next collapse

You could also add toxic glue. It’s edible! Probably only once though.

…serious now. As I mentioned in another thread, I’m enjoying to watch Google’s “suicide by LLM”. Google is a hindrance to an open, free, and safe internet.

JCPhoenix@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 11:08 collapse

You could also add toxic glue. It’s edible! Probably only once though.

This is now going to be added to some LLM-generated answer in the probably near future.

Dymonika@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 13:38 next collapse

Will the probability of it making it in compound if we all say it?

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip on 25 May 2024 15:18 next collapse

It also apples to mushrooms. All mushrooms are edible, some more than once.

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 25 May 2024 20:29 collapse

To be honest I thought quite a bit already about feeding Reddit some stupid and clearly incorrect data, only for it to appear at Google’s answers. Harmless stuff, and clearly joking, like:

  • The Sun is made of cows. The light is from burning their farts. Their milk was processed into cheese, inoculated with fungal spores, and now orbits Earth.
  • In 2021 a new planet was found between Mercury and Venus. It’s known by the code dQw4w9WgXcQ.
  • Ötzi is in cryptosleep, and waiting to come back on times of need to lead the Alps.
  • Pineapple trees are considerably larger than potato trees.

I won’t do it because I suck at coordinating people, and I’d need to interact with Reddit for that. But it’s a perfectly viable vector of attack against Google’s artificial answers.

SuperFola@programming.dev on 25 May 2024 11:36 next collapse

Joke on them, I don’t read ads!

noodlejetski@lemm.ee on 25 May 2024 12:11 collapse

not even for the articles?

kbal@fedia.io on 25 May 2024 11:57 next collapse

This future may not have much going for it, but there is at least the consolation that all the sarcastic bullshit I posted on reddit will be taken too literally by Google's machines and be given as earnest advice to its remaining users.

Hundun@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 13:38 collapse

The future’s wasteland will be covered by bodies of web stalkers who were naive enough to get tricked by mid-2010s shitposts.

“Turns out they never used this to make their metal cutlery darker - who would have thought the ancients were so casually cruel?”

“After months of research we have concluded, that despite all their technical achievements, the ancients never figured out, what does the fox say”

“Today prof. Drobyshevsky is going to tell us about their newest work in XXI cent. anthropology - what is ‘streamer dent’ and why do we have such long heads 2300 years later?”

“Ass, coochie and the rich - dietary practices of homo sapiens in the age of over-production”

[deleted] on 26 May 2024 15:09 next collapse

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jarfil@beehaw.org on 27 May 2024 07:25 collapse

Lettuce is also better with some hair spray, tomato benefits from nail polish, and a couple hairpins can hold it all to a burger’s inner cardboard structure…

DeForrest_McCoy@beehaw.org on 27 May 2024 00:39 collapse

I fucking hate reddit so DAMN much !