Question: "Hey Google, is Donald Trump guilty?"

Google Display: "I don't know, but I've found the results on search."

Google Home: "Sorry, I don't understand."

Gemini answers: "I'm still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search."

How dafuq can it not know???? It's been all over the news. Yes, the man is guilty.

If I ask the same question about Michael Avenatti, it reads something off of an NBC news article.

My take: Google is scared of pissing off Donald Trump.

#Google #GoogleIsShit #DonaldTrump #MichaelAvenatti #AI #AIIsShit #Gemini #GeminiIsShit #guilt

I've seen the news reports. Google Search's AI got caught suggesting evidently stupid shit.

Google said they'd weed out the obviously stupid shit.

Okay, great. What I'm really concerned about is the shit that the AI produces, which is not *obviously* stupid to most people.

Is Google going to hire doctors, engineers, architects, lawyers, paleontologists, to read the output of its engine and weed out the stuff that is not *obviously* stupid to the common individual?

This question was rhetorical. Google won't do this, and we're headed for some fun times ahead.

:holdthepain:

#Google #GoogleIsShit #AI #AIIsShit #LLM #stupid

The number of times Google devices respond to "hey nabu" is really concerning. It does not sound anything like "Hey Google."

😬

#GoogleDevices #GoogleIsShit #enshittification #HomeAssistant #VoiceRecognition

I was able to work around the problem described above by exporting the filter and editing what I needed into it.

It stinks.

#gmail #filtering #forwarding #bug #enshittification #GoogleIsShit

😕 😕 😕 😕 😕 😕 😕 😕 😕 😕

Okay, maybe someone knows what the fuck is going on.

I'm in Gmail. I'm editing a filter to add a forwarding address. I've been using this address with another filter without any issue.

However, when I edit my filter to add the forwarding address, Gmail says the filter was updated, but the forwarding address is not added to the filter.

:headache:

I cleared the application data, as was suggested in many places. It did not work. I also tried in Chrome. (I generally use Firefox.) It did not work.

(I'm not aiming to change email providers. People answering with "just move to [so-and-so]" will be blocked.)

#gmail #filtering #forwarding #bug #enshittification #GoogleIsShit

:headache:

My boyfriend clued me in about a TikTok. In the TikTok, a man was looking at the translation of ingredients in a shampoo bottle from English to French.

The ingredient "soy protein" was translated to "je suis protéine."

I decided to see what Google Translate would do. I set the source language to Detect language and the translation language to French.

Right after I typed "soy," it switched to "Spanish - detected." It translated "soy protein" to "je suis une proteine."

I'll note, in passing, that "soy protein" is not proper Spanish. (I'm not saying it is impossible to say, but that people don't normally express themselves in this way in Spanish, whereas "soy protein" is quite normal in English.)

"Soy milk" gives "je suis du lait."

:why:

#English #Spanish #French #GoogleTranslate #GoogleIsShit #SoyProtein #SoyMilk #soy

Ok, as a lark I asked Gemini to draw me as a catgirl, and I got the following result.

:headache:

First. It does not know what I look like, and it did not ask for a picture of me. For the record, I don't look like that cat.

Second. This is not a catgirl. Do an internet search if you must. I tried DuckDuckGo and Google and, yes, they both immediately knew what a bloody catgirl is. I cannot fathom why this **AI** does not bloody know.

Gemini gets an "are you fucking kidding me" grade on this task, or an F if you are a fan of letter grades.

There was another picture, but it is stupider than this one. Just a cat with some sort of sneer, basically.

#Gemini #GeminiIsShit #Google #GoogleIsShit #AI #AIIsShit #LLM #catgirls #DuckDuckGo

Google’s Enshittification Continues, Unabated

I have a moratorium on buying new Google devices. It is likely to continue.

So, I ran into trouble with my Google Chromecast with Google TV device a long time ago. For the longest time, the device was unable to load suggestions. I searched through Google Search, found people who had the same issue, and I came up with a solution that did not require me to get a new mortgage or sell myself for scientific research. This solution did not last, however. The bug game back, but I did not need the suggestions, so I let it be broken.

#AI #AIIsShit #AutisticWriters #Chromecast #enshittification #Google #GoogleDevices #GoogleIsShit #LLM #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/09/17/googles-enshittification-continues-unabated/

When answers collide.

"Hey Google! What's the temperature outside?"

[Several seconds go by. No response.]

"Hey Google! What's the temperature outside?"

"The current tempe... Hmm... there was a glitch. Please try again in a few seconds."

:why:

#Google #GoogleDevices #GoogleIsShit

"Hey Google! Set a timer for fifty minutes."

"Timer for 15 minutes, starting now."

"Hey Google! Stop... stop the timer."

"Timer cancelled."

"Hey Google! Set a timer for FIFTY minutes."

"Timer for 15 minutes, starting now."

" 🤬 Hey Google! Stop."

"Stopping the Chromecast."

" :headache: 🤬 Hey Google! Cancel the timer."

"Timer cancelled."

"Hey Google! Set a timer for FIFTY minutes."

"Timer for 15 minutes, starting now."

"🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Hey Google! Cancel the timer."

"Hey Google! Set a timer for 49 minutes."

"Timer for 49 minutes, starting now."

"😭"

Truth be told, I don't know if this is #enshittification or not.

#Google #GoogleDevices #GoogleIsShit

#YouTube is circling the drain too. I find that it is much more aggressive now decide that I do NOT want to watch music videos.

Seeing as I'm paying for YouTube mainly because I want to see music videos, this looks like a self-defeating feature. I'm reconsidering my subscription right now.

Feels Like Summer by Childish Gambino came up, music only. Half of the fun of this piece is to watch the damn music video!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B9Fk_SgI0

#CirclingTheDrain #enshittification #GoogleIsShit #YouTubeIsShit #MusicVideos #FeelsLikeSummer #ChildishGambino

Google Search is turning into complete crap. Hear me out.

So I hear that Bill Ackman is going to sue because someone laid out the evidence in Business Insider as to his wife's plagiarism. His wife's name is Neri Oxman.

Ackman's lawsuit is without merit. @Popehat can explain it to you better than I can. Here's the podcast where I learned about it:

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/sweetie-please-file-this-lawsuit

I was curious as to the original article laying out the evidence for plagiarism. I decide to go to Google and I plug in this term:

neri oxman "business insider"

Business Insider is not among the results I get. I do get stuff from other news outlet, but the results are miles away from the original article.

:headache:

I gave Google the news outlet's name in quotes. Why can't it find what I want? Did Business Insider not pay the Google Mafia the money that this mafia asked for??? WTF is going on here?

I go to DuckDuckGo, put in the same results, and blammo! I get results from Business Insider. I get what I want.

I've got screenshots below showing you what I got from both sources.

This is not the first time Google Search shits the bed. Last week, I was wondering about the *history* of a fashion item that is still being sold. I put in the term and Google decides that I want to buy the item. I wanted something like a Wikipedia article about the item. I did not want to buy it. It would be merely annoying if I had the option to do a regular search and not a shopping search, but that option was nowhere. DuckDuckGo came to the rescue.

So, here's my solution. Going forward, I'm switching my default search engine to DuckDuckGo.

I'm fucking tired of Google's enshittification.

:why:

#Google #GoogleSearch #GoogleIsShit #AlphabetIsShit #enshittification #DuckDuckGo

I have an idea as to why my Google devices have become deaf.

If I have music playing. They won't hear me. It does not matter where I am. The device will pick up the lyrics and be confused. If I turn off the music, the device can hear me just fine.

This did not use to happen.

Something changed in the voice recognition.

This is #enshittification.

#Google #GoogleDevices #GoogleIsShit #VoiceRecognition

Hey #Google,

I told Google News to hide Fuck News (Fox News) from my news feed. Then I refresh, and I see the very same story from Fuck News.

What's going on with you?????

Why can't you accept my preferences???

Why do you see fit to shove Fuck News drivel down my throat?

I tried to report the bug, but I was presented by reams of pages about this and that, and I decided that my time is too precious for this crap.

(I know about google@mastodon.social, but it seems to be a bot or a mirror or some other stooge account.)

#GoogleNews #GoogleIsShit #USNews #USPol #FuckNews #FoxNews #newsfeed #enshittification

Well, now that I've experienced every single failure mode of Google devices, I can die an angry man.

*blergh*

"Hmm... there was a glitch. Please try that again in a few seconds."

#Google #GoogleDevices #GoogleIsShit #FailureModes #angry #blergh #joke

"Amazon Alexa users are having trouble controlling their lights"

Where's the article about Google Home not hearing shit, deciding that the living room lights are the bedroom lights, freezing, spewing nonsense, etc?

#USNews #Google #GoogleIsShit #Amazon #AmazonAlexa

https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-alexa-not-turning-on-lights-3393656/

I've moved my Your Autistic Life profile from Chrome to Firefox. It was *mostly* painless. The most painful thing was that it did not replicate my open tabs.

(By the way, if you did not know this. Firefox has a way to import your Chrome data. Google it! :madjoy: )

I have many pen names and I have one profile for each in Chrome, so I'm not done yet. I've moved one other profile. I still need to move my... er... plain boring profile. (I mean one I created first, before I had any pen name.)

There are two profiles that won't get moved. One is for a pen name that I killed last week. The other one is for a pen name I'm going to kill soon.

I'm trying to concentrate on Your Autistic Life.

#YourAutisticLife #Chrome #Firefox #GoogleIsShit #PenName

I'd call this enshittification, but it has been this way for a long time. I think I've even complained about it in the fediverse before.

#YouTube has this obsession with Frozen and Moana. Every time I go down in my selections, I get "Frozen Songs" and "Moana Songs." I might have listened to one Frozen song a long time ago. They are definitely not in my favorites.

What is YouTube doing here, but just trolling me with stuff I wouldn't listen to.

Yes, I did a long press. No, I cannot banish them from the suggestions.

Thank you, Google! You're such a pearl!

(Yes, I know. It is not as infuriating as getting transphobes suggested to me, but it is still annoying.)

#Google #GoogleIsShit #suggestions #Frozen #Moana #troll

I do a search on Google and one of the results is from Autism Speaks. I want to not be shown results from this piece of shit outfit.

So I check if I can block it. Before you start laughing, I recall (maybe incorrectly) that at times Google has allowed us to block some sources. Even if Google itself does not allow it, I have installed extensions that can do it. (Just not in the profile I'm using.)

So I click on the three dots next to the result and I see a button labeled "Remove result." I click on it and I get the dialog in the image I've attached to this post.

The notion that you can *remove* the result is mostly a lie.

Let's go over the options in turn:

* "It shows my personal contact info" Nope, that's not the problem.

* It shows my contact info with an intent to harm me" Nope, that's not my case.

* "It shows other personal info" Still not my case.

* "It contains illegal info" Nope, it is definitely stupid but not illegal.

* "It’s outdated" Well, that's not really the problem.

If you click on the arrow next to these options, a lot of them send you to Google's documentation about this or that.

The last option will allow you to ask for a refresh. That's not removal!

The first option is the one that seems to be the most expedient one, but I expect that Google is going to see that my information is not on the page and not do anything about it.

So... why is the button called "Remove result" if it does not actually remove the result from what I get?

:headache:

#GoogleSearch #enshittification #GoogleIsShit #banning #blocking #RemovingShitResults #AutismSpeaks #ActuallyAutistic

Here's even more proof of #YouTube crap.

As I recall, when I used to go into the search menu, the suggestions that I used to get were based on my previous search terms.

I was expecting more of the same, but today I went there and found that the suggestions were all things that I never searched for, and that they all begin with a little fire icon, presumably to indicate that these are hot search terms!

I suspect that's YouTube's way to show you what other people are searching for.

Herd mentality! That's a really bad way to try to sell me on anything...

"Well, every one else is doing it! Surely, you must want to do it too!"

:headache:

(For the record, I don't go into search that often. Maybe YouTube made the change a year ago, and I'm just noticing now.)

#GoogleIsShit #enshittification #search