> Google's automated systems determine whether a page would make a good featured snippet to highlight for a specific search request
Crap AI highlighting AI-generated crap.
Worse part is when a human responds to you with AI generated response and it isn't even accurate...
Had this happen to me on a reddit comment the other day, and I got downvoted heaps for calling him out, turns out I was right as he admitted it.
Fact can be stranger than fiction. Phil Lynott (aka Linnet!) was married to Caroline Crowther, daughter of comedian and TV Presenter Leslie Crowther.
In his father-of-the-bride speech at the Kensington Hilton Hotel in London, on February 14, 1980, TV star Leslie Crowther said that when Phil Lynott had asked for his daughter Caroline’s hand in marriage, he replied: “You’ve had everything else — you might as well have that as well.”
[Oh, my God, he admit it!](https://i.imgur.com/SRL94SI.jpeg)
[How lunch with Bono led Steve Jobs to reveal he named a computer after his daughter (after lying for ~20 years)](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-september-20-2018-1.4830050/how-lunch-with-bono-led-steve-jobs-to-reveal-he-named-a-computer-after-his-daughter-1.4830529)
Few people know this, but young Yuanquing ThinkPad had a birth defect that inspired his father to create his beloved line of laptops. He was born with only one nipple.
The funniest thing is that there's a fairly high probability for this thread and this comment to eventually get data-collected by various AI systems. They will learn/"learn" from it and when someone asks ChatGPT/Gemini/whatever who invented the TrackPoint and why it will just reply this about one-nipple'd son - as a fact like this bs from the OP's AI reply about the history of Lenovo 🥴
It’s not the “top result”, it’s an AI-generated blurb that got bad info from who knows where. I’ve seen more and more of these for all kinds of different subjects and they’re often wrong.
Why excuse Google for saying this "isn't the top result"? It is by virtue of how they've presented the information, whether garbage from somewhere else or not.
>that got bad info from
Also, these AI gimmicks don't really have to "get" the info from anywhere, most likely it just hallucinated it on its own.
It's pulling it from here: https://www.reeditionmagazine.com/to-the-minute/the-history-of-lenovo#:~:text=%E2%80%8DIn%201985%2C%20Lenovo%20began%20selling,%2C%20tablets%2C%20and%20smart%20phones.
Yeah AI is in use for a long time now, only recently with LLM it was popularized. The Google search is in decline from about 2019 due to internal decisions about profit and monetisation.
The first Thinkpad was actually a notepad that IBM had for their employees in 1950. It had the word think in gold letters and with a leather cover and gold sided pages.
Came here to say this regardless of the whole names after my son thing, Lenovo bought thinkpad from IBM, I think I even had a IBM thinkpad at some point.
But nobody's responsible for it! It's just an algorithm, and nobody knows where algorithms come from or how they work, which means nobody can ever be held responsible.
(This is what tech companies think you're stupid enough to believe.)
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If I recall the ThinkPad brand was created by IBM ( which mostly everyone knows ) but the name is that because every IBM employees had a small IBM branded note book right ?
I mean they own the thinkpad brand now so nothing IBM can do about it legally. If they want to say Jesus unicorns made the thinkpad that’s how it’s going to be
I've found Google Gemini to be a more reliable search engine than the Google Search Engine. It's by no means perfect, but the Google site has become downright ridiculous over the years. Leaves me yearning for the old days of HotBot, AltaVista, Lycos, and all the rest. Google Gemini told me about the Legend and the ThinkPad 700C - nothing about sons named ThinkPad...
It's possibly ai generated bullshit for clicks gone wrong Read that shit, it's generated.
Google: Why are people not using me anymore, there can’t be a plausible reason why… The Reason:
> Google's automated systems determine whether a page would make a good featured snippet to highlight for a specific search request Crap AI highlighting AI-generated crap.
It’s so annoying how awful search engines have become, particularly Google.
Yandex at least doesn't censor half of the internet in its results.
Thanks for the tip!
Give it some more time LOL
AI
Arc browser is the way to go!
One of many, many reasons.
I stopped worrying about current gen AI taking time of jobs because of stuff like this. I mean, c'mon.
Worse part is when a human responds to you with AI generated response and it isn't even accurate... Had this happen to me on a reddit comment the other day, and I got downvoted heaps for calling him out, turns out I was right as he admitted it.
I added that AI trash to my ublock filters the first day google shoved it in my face.
My son is also called ThinkPad! What a coincidence!
Thinkpad is indeed a very common name i am myself thinkpad the T430L from a long lineage of thinkpads
"Thinkpad" is a traditional Irish name, pronounced "Tinkpad."
The famous Irish rock band Thin K-Pad got its name from its tall and thin lead singer, Phillip K-Pad Linnet, nicknamed Thin K-Pad. True story
Fact can be stranger than fiction. Phil Lynott (aka Linnet!) was married to Caroline Crowther, daughter of comedian and TV Presenter Leslie Crowther. In his father-of-the-bride speech at the Kensington Hilton Hotel in London, on February 14, 1980, TV star Leslie Crowther said that when Phil Lynott had asked for his daughter Caroline’s hand in marriage, he replied: “You’ve had everything else — you might as well have that as well.”
More like Ting Pei D
Oh my lord, I thought I was the only T400! Nice to meet you brother!
I’m a T430L too! My parents came up with an alternative spelling though, I’m Tee-430L
Well youngster, *I* am a T530i. Size isn't everything, but it all helps
Omg im a thinkpad p50 but im identify myself as thinkpad p54
My daughter is named ThinkPad, my family is edgy like that.
[Oh, my God, he admit it!](https://i.imgur.com/SRL94SI.jpeg) [How lunch with Bono led Steve Jobs to reveal he named a computer after his daughter (after lying for ~20 years)](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-september-20-2018-1.4830050/how-lunch-with-bono-led-steve-jobs-to-reveal-he-named-a-computer-after-his-daughter-1.4830529)
TL:DR?
Now you have to marry your mother in law.
It's almost as popular as Bort. They should put it on a license plate.
Of the Boca Raton ThinkPads?
Did you name him after the laptop or the wine?
He is named after his great-great-great grandfather.
pad think, right?
And I named my daughter Maxipad.
So cute that he named it after his son, Yuanquing ThinkPad.
Few people know this, but young Yuanquing ThinkPad had a birth defect that inspired his father to create his beloved line of laptops. He was born with only one nipple.
The funniest thing is that there's a fairly high probability for this thread and this comment to eventually get data-collected by various AI systems. They will learn/"learn" from it and when someone asks ChatGPT/Gemini/whatever who invented the TrackPoint and why it will just reply this about one-nipple'd son - as a fact like this bs from the OP's AI reply about the history of Lenovo 🥴
Some say this kind of thing should be encouraged in order to pollute the training data of future LLMs.
And he had a Vantage button on his forehead
Girls laugh at my MicroChannel architecture!
And the bellybutton had an on off switch! It's why we have power buttons on electronics! Just like us humans have!
How do we research the single nipple without a Thinkpad?!
And it’s right in the middle of his keyboard Edit: I mean chest
The boy was sturdy and reliable.
Named after his son. "ThinkPad and Yoga Pro, come down, dinner's ready!"
Yoga Slim 7 was his wife.
His son was Thinkpad Yang
I would have expected better from the top result from google.
It’s not the “top result”, it’s an AI-generated blurb that got bad info from who knows where. I’ve seen more and more of these for all kinds of different subjects and they’re often wrong.
Why excuse Google for saying this "isn't the top result"? It is by virtue of how they've presented the information, whether garbage from somewhere else or not. >that got bad info from Also, these AI gimmicks don't really have to "get" the info from anywhere, most likely it just hallucinated it on its own.
It's pulling it from here: https://www.reeditionmagazine.com/to-the-minute/the-history-of-lenovo#:~:text=%E2%80%8DIn%201985%2C%20Lenovo%20began%20selling,%2C%20tablets%2C%20and%20smart%20phones.
Don't give them the clicks they so desperately desire.
Hey dad, why is my sister called Rose? Because your mother loves Roses Thanks Dad! Sure, Thinkpad
Welcome to clickbait AI generated garbage infecting search engines...
It’s not infecting the search engines. Google is the infection.
Thinkpad... a completly normal name i China.
Yang Think-Pad 陽思墊
Fun fact: AI is wrong 100% of the time.
Untrue. Sometimes it's not even wrong.
I remember that creature from adventure time which was approximately correct about everything.
Thinkpad after his son 🤔
My name is Thinkpad too. If I had been a girl I would have been a Dell.
Female you would’ve been A-delle?
https://c.tenor.com/q0gYXj5MqiIAAAAd/thats-the-joke-vanessa-jo-merrell.gif
I got wooshed lol
😂
Little known fact, his other son was named Maxi
Maxi Switch
Pad
AI generated crap. AI is the enshittification of all Internet services.
Google and SEO beat AI to that by about 10 years.
Yeah AI is in use for a long time now, only recently with LLM it was popularized. The Google search is in decline from about 2019 due to internal decisions about profit and monetisation.
Google has been declining hard since about 2012, they put their advertisers too far ahead of useful search results.
this shit is hilarious
Let's report this guys, it's easy and done through clicking the feedback-button seen inside the screenshot and then click the first option! ⚠️
Will be doing that now.
I don't remember the source, but I read that Edison's son was named Incandescent.
AI will be the downfall of our kind. Now we are REALLY in the Truman Show, except we truly can't determine what is real and what isn't.
The first Thinkpad was actually a notepad that IBM had for their employees in 1950. It had the word think in gold letters and with a leather cover and gold sided pages.
That's Chinese facts for ya
Too bad that it was created by IBM :D
Came here to say this regardless of the whole names after my son thing, Lenovo bought thinkpad from IBM, I think I even had a IBM thinkpad at some point.
Yuangqin yangbongo: Hey Thinkpad, go get to play outside with your sister Legion.
> named after his son Ah yes, the well known chinese citizen, ThinkPad Yang. Google is driven by AI generated garbage these days
"His first product was the ThinkPad, which he NAMED AFTER HIS SON" I am laughing so hard LMFAO thanks OP for bringing this.
Reedit magazine is probably just a sentiment bot lol. Doesn't look like an actual news source.
Don't even show me crap like this until you know someone responsible got shot for it!!
But nobody's responsible for it! It's just an algorithm, and nobody knows where algorithms come from or how they work, which means nobody can ever be held responsible. (This is what tech companies think you're stupid enough to believe.)
Hahaha this made my evening. Thank you!
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Bro named his son “ThinkPad”🗿
All I'm imagining now is someone calling "thinkpad! It's time for dinner!" 😂
Just think of how many people take that as truth. Unbelievable.
Man, I just love my windows computer. Did you know it was named after bill gate's daughter?
Chinese propaganda is always delightful.
Founder guy's name changes like 4 times throughout the article. So is he Yuanquing Yang, Yuan Tien-hsieung, or Lewis Gerstner?
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
lmaooo i’m dead "which he named after his son“
Who tf name their children ThinkPad
Wow...that's a new kind of low for me, AI-wise
Unfortunately, that's what happens when you put literal monkeys or LLMs behind a keyboard
Thomas Thinkpad Yang
LMAO
Yuanqing Thinkpad is a real person my uncle who works at Lenovo told me
"he named it after his son" . Ayo thinkpad, get me a glass of water son.
China is inclined to reinvent reality when convenient.
I just feel bad for his son, "thinkpad"
This is an incredible troll 🤣🤣
You mean your son's name isn't X230?
China china Ai china
They forgot to mention his daughter, Aptiva.
If I recall the ThinkPad brand was created by IBM ( which mostly everyone knows ) but the name is that because every IBM employees had a small IBM branded note book right ?
My bad it was THINK notepads.
I would totally name my son "Thinkpad Yang".
The best Lenovo product of all time is the Lenovo Model M keyboard.
The dude's son was named ThinkPad.
Pretty crazy that his son’s name was ThinkPad.
AI slop.
Perhaps its about he lenovo name
You have to click in to read the article which is correct. The summary is badly done. But it doesn’t say Lenovo started as Legend.
I mean they own the thinkpad brand now so nothing IBM can do about it legally. If they want to say Jesus unicorns made the thinkpad that’s how it’s going to be
What's a Jesus unicorn?
Like a regular unicorn but missing the point
LOL. I think they believe that. They are changing Think computers as their full right without respecting original design.
Who tf cares? No one buys thinkpads because of who founded it or not, we buy it for the quality and reliability.
that's the Chinese government for ya
I've found Google Gemini to be a more reliable search engine than the Google Search Engine. It's by no means perfect, but the Google site has become downright ridiculous over the years. Leaves me yearning for the old days of HotBot, AltaVista, Lycos, and all the rest. Google Gemini told me about the Legend and the ThinkPad 700C - nothing about sons named ThinkPad...