RIP

  • cm0002@lemy.lolOP
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    12 days ago

    HotBot started out in the 90s as a search engine, it was an AskJeeves competitor (top pic). I used it quite a lot until some point in the mid 2000s when I started using old school Google

    Now it’s a shitty bot website (middle pic), a fate worse than death

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      12 days ago

      not really, that’d make it useful for the first time in 30 years

      edit: my mistake i forgot what website im on

      hurr durrr ai bad 👎 etc

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        12 days ago

        I’m pretty AI friendly, but for good use cases, open source and shuns shitty AI corpos like OpenAI

        This is none of that, it’s just a shitty generic model wrapper cash grab that puts OpenAI models front and center.

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          12 days ago

          no shit, hotbot has been literally dead since before 9/11, who cares?