The number 4670001542142 is a barcode (EAN) for the CD album The Middle of Nowhere by the British electronic music duo Orbital.
Key details about this release:
Artist: Orbital
Album Title:The Middle of Nowhere
Format: CD Album
Label: Warner Music Entertainment (among others, depending on regional release)
Genre: Electronic music
The barcode is associated with releases in various countries, including Russia (2007) and South Korea (1999), and is often used by online marketplaces like Discogs and CD and LP to identify the specific product version.
That is nothing to do with AI. That is just a standard search result.
The only difference is instead of giving you links to the sites the resulting text is lifted from Discogs, CD and LP, etc, Google reads more of the page, steals the traffic and stops you from visiting.
This is a good example of how “AI” means less visits to sites supplying the actual real data.
This is a Google search for someone who can’t be arsed to click on the result of the search.
I know it’s not AI. But there were so many arguments when I provided such information from “AI.” People wrote to me: “Don’t post AI stuff, it’s garbage.”
Just like with the Picard scripts.
I marked when the text was from “AI” for clarity.
And now it’s slowly becoming normal, whether we like it or not. And maybe soon it will be the only option.
Oh come on! Even my asshole is more intelligent than that! It doesn’t make me randomly poop myself, then say “You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have let the poop come out yet. Do you want me to try again?”
I think a thread like this shows how depressed some of us are with this Automated Idiocy that is going on. Just to make some money for someone.
Search used to direct you to a creator’s site where they can make a small amount of money from an advert or get a chance to engage a new person with a subject. To go to a source of real knowledge. This kind of result just steals the credit for that work. Ultimately it will kill off the website if no one visits.
Worst I find are the AI slop websites. Try to research something and you hit a raft of auto-generated sites that are clearly feeding off each other. “Six answers to…” Using many words to say something that is not accurate and clearly full of errors. Loosing the real sites with the real answers way down the page. It is dumbing down into an inaccurate mess.
And then you have the hours being wasted by skilled people like @Zas having to literally fight off a hoard of unwelcome bots. Especially bizarre at MB because if these bots were even half intelligent then they’d know they can download and host their own copy of the site much quicker than scraping it.
The pocket calculator gave us a generation who stopped learning to add up. Google search, especially on a phone, meant a generation stopped keeping facts in their head. Now ChatGPT is giving us a generation where people are not learning how to think…
@Deleted_Editor_2599073 There are no flying pigs in the track, just the album art. That track (and album) is very relevant though. About corporate greed and controlling by the 1% at the top of the tree. AI is created by corporates trying to tell us what we want. Getting us to buy into something we don’t need. Maybe people (sheep) will rise up and fight back like on the album, but I am not so sure.
Good music has plenty of lessons within the lyrics, if we listen.
