You sure it’s not disabled for AndroidPolice.com? I’m still seeing it.

The built-in ad blocker of the Vivaldi browser

Ugh, an ad-block force wall. No visit.

When you have 100+ feeds you really want to avoid reading twice the same entry. It’s the single most important feature in an RSS reader for me.

I have different experience with Vivaldi, been using it for years, and it’s amazing.

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Almost like it is not a for-profit company, and the investors interests are not a priority…

“Citogenesis” I chuckled:) XKCD is great

Oh and here’s the wiki article on the subject! With a link to the comic no less:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting

Quoting the article: “…Although WIRED could initially replicate the troubling Bing result, it now appears to have been resolved…”.

Most of the web-search-capable bots I use (fastgpt, bing chat, poe web-search) correctly refuse to quote the published LLM-hallucinated info. It can still be reproduced on perplexity ai.

This seems to be much less of an issue than recent publications make it out to be, mostly because all the companies behind those bots are aware and actively addressing it, I guess.

Here’s an AI bot’s summary:

Cory Doctorow gave a talk about the concept of “ensh*ttification” - how internet platforms start out good, then abuse users to benefit businesses, then abuse businesses to benefit themselves, until they die.

He argues today’s big tech firms like Facebook and Google have undergone ensh*ttification, withdrawing value from users and business partners to benefit shareholders.

Doctorow says ensh*ttification happens due to lack of competition, companies’ ability to “twiddle the knobs” with no transparency, and laws that criminalize modifying platforms.

He proposes halting consolidation, limiting companies’ twiddling abilities, and restoring the right to modify platforms through “adversarial interoperability.”

This will help shift control of technology from giant companies to small ones, co-ops, nonprofits and user communities.

Tactics include blocking mergers, mandating open APIs, government procurement rules favoring interoperability, and rolling back laws against modifying platforms.

The goal is a “new good internet” that succeeds the old open internet and avoids the pitfalls of today’s walled gardens. Doctorow urges spreading these ideas to seize opportunities in future crises.

Link to the bot prompt and completion: https://poe.com/s/9ttdGxEMHMSCkLnSTGiz