Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[gban007]

Now, I know the first 500 times I've given my opinion you havent agreed, but surely on the 501st time you will.

 

[Ryujin]

May 2025 - We announce that Windows 10 is going out of support in October so you won't be able to use Windows 10 computers after that.

October 2025 - Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10. We disable access for computers running Windows 10.

January 2026 - "Why can't my computer connect to the internet?"

 

[Warpiglet-7]

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[Willie the Duck]

Okay, experiment time.

Some adventuresome individual -- please google "galvanic corrosion" and click the drop-down. Does Google suggest a YouTube video on the subject? Is there anything notable about the video thumbnail?

 

[Alzrius]

Okay, experiment time.

Some adventuresome individual -- please google "galvanic corrosion" and click the drop-down. Does Google suggest a YouTube video on the subject? Is there anything notable about the video thumbnail?

Oh wow! I wish she'd been my high school science teacher!

 

[Willie the Duck]

Oh wow! I wish she'd been my high school science teacher!

Okay, so it isn't just me.

I was watching a show about channel boats and the guy was talking about keeping the landline current isolated from the boat so his aluminum* hull wouldn't get damaged. I wanted to make sure I understood that principle (both HS and college Chemistry were a while ago), and also confirm that it was the same reason you don't want to mix copper and steel plumping.
*I guess aluminium, since it would be a British boat.

So I google it (rather proud that I remembered the term) and the google suggested a YouTube video with an AI 'babe' in a bikini or lingerie and lab coat as thumbnail. This is a little concerning because 1) we don't watch 'adult' material through our internet, 2) could very well have kids doing this googling, and 3) the subject was base chemistry concepts. So we watch it (out of morbid curiosity), and other than a rather ASMR-ish AI female voice, it's a normal chemistry explainer video. So Google or the YouTube algorithm thinks we need glorified booth babes (as in there just for the thumbnail) for completely untawdry google topics.

I did the same search at work (just the search) and it comes up with a different AI-generated-thumbnail video, this time with cleavage-ful woman in construction hat & vest. So it even knows to toe the line for places of business. I just... future generations are going to have a really weird opinion of us and I want to yell down the ages "I did not agree to this!"

 

[CleverNickName]

future generations are going to have a really weird opinion of us and I want to yell down the ages "I did not agree to this!"

Ah, but you did click the thumbnail... and that's almost like agreeing to it. (sarcastic, but mostly cynical)

Google is almost impossible to use these days if you need real, useful information. :-/

 

[Scribe]

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I see that thread has taken a turn for the worst. Eject.

Lets learn about galvanic corrosion...

 

[Mad_Jack]

Now, I know the first 500 times I've given my opinion you havent agreed, but surely on the 501st time you will.

There are reasons to believe that the 501st might convince them...

 

[Willie the Duck]

Ah, but you did click the thumbnail... and that's almost like agreeing to it. (sarcastic, but mostly cynical)

Oh no, I get that. Although, to be fair, I was looking for information on the topic. I would have clicked on a video with a thumbnail that just had the words 'galvanic corrosion' on it. In reality, I was less likely to have clicked it, as I kinda wondered what it might do to my future algorithm (plus my wife and I get each other's sense of humor, know each other's relation to smut, and she saw me inadvertently stumble into this video -- some other couple or some other scenario and this would keep the video from being clicked).

Google is almost impossible to use these days if you need real, useful information. :-/

Definitely. I was mostly trying to get to Wikipedia -- which I think is still mostly okay for basic (and non politically controversial) subject matter topics like galvanic corrosion, redox reactions, the Krebs cycle, mitosis, or Newton's laws of motion. I guess we'll see if these too end up victims of an internet eating itself.