

Today’s bullshit that annoys me: Wikiwand. From what I can tell their grift is that it’s just a shitty UI wrapper for Wikipedia that sells your data to who the fuck knows to make money for some Israeli shop. Also they SEO the fuck out of their stupid site so that every time I search for something that has a Finnish wikipedia page, the search results also contain a pointless shittier duplicate result from wikiwand dot com. Has anyone done a deeper investigation into what their deal is or at least some kind of rant I could indulge in for catharsis?
Especially galling when the sentence starts with “like it or not”. Wrong. AI is not like a disease or a natural law that stays with us whether we want it or not. If humanity decides we don’t like AI, we could just stop doing it. “Like it or not, hitting yourself is here to stay” is only true if someone is actively forcing me to hit myself, and whoever is forcing me probably doesn’t honestly think they’re doing me a favor.
Homeopathy is here to stay and (a) that’s a bad thing, (b) it could be more popular, but thankfully is not, © we don’t need to believe fraudulent claims about its benefits, (d) we could and maybe should try and make it even less popular, and (e) the continued practice of homeopathy in parts of human society should have little to no impact on the daily lives of most people and the vast majority should be given the opportunity to ignore it instead of integrating it into every possible facet of their lives. Same goes for AI slop.