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Yes, and already there are reports that AI is used to make certain your page is mentioned by the new Google AI.
Endless circle, like fighting spam, isn't it?

And don't forget, as mentioned before, AI consumes a lot of energy and water.
An article in the Brussels Times claims a ChatGPT query consumes up to 25 times more electricity than a regular Google search.
Additionally, about 20 to 50 queries evaporate about half a litre of water to keep the computers cool.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1042696/c ... han-google

An older article by Tech HQ claims training ChatGPT consumed 1.287 GWh (Giga Watt hour), the equivalent of what 120 household in the US consume in a year.
https://techhq.com/2023/03/data-center- ... e-chatgpt/
That was for training ChatGPT 3, some say training ChatGPT 4 did cost factors more.
And now they start training ChatGPT 5.

All this energy and water consumption to get an answer you can't trust.
Nonetheless, every big tech company will jump on the bandwagon, afraid they otherwise will be left behind.
And if you don't use their product, they can't show you ads, or sell your data, and thus will have less revenue.
Can't disappoint the stockholders, now can we?

B.T.W. DuckDuckGo uses the Bing API to perform searches.
Bing results aren't as good as Google's used to be.

June does not seem to be a good month for the top transcribers.

These may interest some.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-13/ ... /103971588

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climat ... tarctica/?

pommystuart wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:27 pm June does not seem to be a good month for the top transcribers.

Yeah, this time of year is a little rough around here

Stuart, wow! It's still so amazing that these sunken ships can be found like this.

We have just spent 6 days lovely sunny days at Ellis Beach in QLD
-16.725122, 145.645468

You would not believe that at Christmas the high tide ahead of cyclone Jasper flooded the park then there was big bolders and stones from the hill side behind the park washing right through the caravan park from the massive 6 day storm.
The park was completely wrecked. To look at it now you would not know it had happened.
See news clips about the storm below.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/cairn ... 92d80c734d

Wow!!! I'm happy to hear that you're having as good time. We're back from Menlo Park, so the drudgery starts now...

"the drudgery starts now.:

Surely not, Michael.

Been drudging all day... Almost ready to work on Lackawanna 1879...

Kearserge 1891 coming up soon, that will make your day.

Doing mid Nov now.

Hi everyone, I've got another update from Frank Odenthal, the German journalist. He finished making his podcast (in German) and it's been posted. It's got our interviews included and you can listen to it via Spotify HERE It looks like it's about 19 minutes long.

Thanks for posting!

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (28 Jun 1712-1778)

The ability to write legibly?