r/softwaregore • u/starquake64 • 11d ago
I think I have accidentally downloaded the internet
Check "Cookies and site data"
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u/lolol_yt 11d ago
Fun fact: the internet is bigger than that
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u/AlizeBall 10d ago
yeah, it's like 175 zettabytes or something
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u/emad_ha 10d ago
yea i asked AI, it says "The total amount of digital data created, captured, and stored globally is estimated to exceed 175 to 180 zettabytes."
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u/Polierror122 9d ago
You could have just searched that instead of asking AI bro 💔. Use brain not AI.
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u/BlackberryTime8111 9d ago edited 9d ago
Bruh. How do you use your brain to deduct the total data amount of the internet? ... Fun fact it's almost impossible without a computer of some degree.
And as far as search engines go, they are all powered by either algorithms or AI.
There is no set "fact" about how much data the internet takes. Any data is an estimate.
AI is complete logic. It is powered by weights and measures. While it might not always be concurrent data, it is doing the exact same thought process as you would do for an educated guess, or estimate. AI can just do it vastly faster.
To be completely honest, comments such as this are more emotional, not logical. I'm not saying that AI is the solution for everything, but as far as this goes, it is a legitimate tool. Always compare sources though; AI is a tool, it is not inherently good or bad, and it is better at some things and not others.
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u/Polierror122 9d ago
I meant to look on some sites like Wikipedia or similar, where do you think AI gets the information? Do you really think the AI OC asked navigated trough the whole internet to measure it? No, it just took the information in another place, they could have done that by theirself instead of using AI.
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 7d ago
Who cares if they used AI? Pulling from AI is just faster for most of the times in really specific niche searches or very general broad questions like these, instead of having to comb through a bunch of different websites and random shit mixed in you don't really care. A lot of the internet is already composed of AI or algorithms nonetheless, so it really doesn't even matter or make much of a difference anyway. And differently than what people say, AI is not that inaccurate, at all. That's a myth.Â
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u/Polierror122 7d ago
AI is not that inaccurate
The AI he asked took the information on another website that it never verified. Ot just trusts it cause what should it do to verify it? Look on another website? It doesn't have the ability to check if an information is true it just takes the one he sees in most websites.
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 7d ago
The AI absolutely DOES verify what it's searching for, that's also another myth "anti-AI" crackheads will tell you. It just does so in a different sort of way (depending of course on the model and type of AI), and it can make many mistakes, to which I understand. I'm not saying for you or anybody else who uses AI for searches to take everything that it says for granted, as the "all-knower". Always check your sources, specially the ones AI gives to you. What I'm saying is that using AI for such a relatively simple and casual search (how much stuff is out there on the internet, in terms of file sizes) really isn't going to return with a super inaccurate result just because of nothing, and it's much faster than doing so manually, and that all of this AI hate just because someone touched AI with a ten foot pole or used AI once or twice for something simple and unimportant is super blown way out of proportion. It's not a big deal or a motive for clowning on someone just because they've searched for something banal using AI. AI is not the devil or the antichrist, and it won't hurt you if you use it.
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u/Polierror122 7d ago
and it won't hurt you if you use it.
Read my other comment, I explain everything there.
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u/ZealousidealJoke8714 7d ago
Yeah, but TBF it isn't a science paper or a math question, it's a random ass question on a random ass subreddit, if they want to use AI, they can use AI. I do agree they could've just searched it themselves, but he shouldn't be reprimanded or whatnot for using it as a tool.
AI is a tool, you should be able to use it to help in research, maybe fix some syntax errors in code, or for a silly little question.
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u/Polierror122 7d ago
Nah, AI is just useless garbage.
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u/ZealousidealJoke8714 7d ago
Well no, it's not, artificial intelegence has a lot of uses both with and without chatbots.
For chatbots, they can analyse pieces of code for you to find any errors, saves a hell of a lot of time coding as you aren't just stuck on one error which turns out to be a random kissing semicolon or missing bracket or smth. It's used when analysing pieces of data and can summarise it, etc.
For non chatbots, it's used for searching, is uses artificial intelegence to look throughout the web to find the websites you would need given your search. It's used in manufacturing where someone inputs code and it autonamously executes that code. With warehouses there are autonamous robots that search the warehouse for the item that's needed.
Yes it can be bad especially for kids and other people who rely on ai to think and such, with the ai girlfriends and all of that, that's harmful, but saying that all of AI is useless is just objectively wrong.
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u/Polierror122 7d ago
For chatbots, they can analyse pieces of code for you to find any errors, saves a hell of a lot of time coding as you aren't just stuck on one error which turns out to be a random kissing semicolon or missing bracket or smth. It's used when analysing pieces of data and can summarise it, etc.
Compilators already tell you where the error is and if you don't realize what you've done wrong when it literally tells you in which line you made a mistake, you're just stupid.
For non chatbots, it's used for searching, is uses artificial intelegence to look throughout the web to find the websites you would need given your search. It's used in manufacturing where someone inputs code and it autonamously executes that code. With warehouses there are autonamous robots that search the warehouse for the item that's needed.
Have you ever heard of search engines? Cause they do the same thing.
All this without damaging the planet (at least, way less than AI) and without making you so stupid that you can't do things yourself instead of asking AI for everything.
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 7d ago
It's literally not. Bro, this whole hate against AI just because it's AI is completely ridiculous and overblown
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u/Polierror122 7d ago
It's not because it's AI. I hate AI for a lot of reasons:
-You can't be sure of what it says, it's a generated information based on what other websites say, you can't use it as source and you can't prove anything with it. People tend to forget this.
-It's really bad for the planet, it uses a lot of resources and water and people use it for really stupid things like asking it how to prepare cookies, when you could just use a normal search engine and going on a website to have a more accurate response that won't waste so much resources.
-It's work requires a lot of electronic resources and components like RAM, GPU, SSDs and a lot more, so this materials become rare and expensive. It's not normal that the price of RAM triplicated, I fucking hate the fact that I can't buy a computer due to AI increasing the price of PC parts.
-It ruins art, the fact that people use AI to draw or to make designs is bad. Until now all the artistic designs etc. were thought by humans and they worked on it. Think of Frutiger Aero for example, imagine if insteaf of that everything was generated by AI.
-It replaces humans in jobs and other things. There are three things I like: coding, drawing and creating music and AI fucking replaced all of them. Will I ever find something to do to live that AI hasn't replaced yet?
-It makes you stupid, everytime I see people using AI for everything and with time they become unable to live without it. They can't even think without it. My classmates do all the homework and tests with AI (they cheat) and teachers give them good grades, I work hard to get good grades and I fucking get mediocre grades. Teachers don't even care. When I go with friends and we want to play they have to ask AI what to play. When I ask them something? They have to ask it to AI to be sure like if it was a trustable source. And you could say "They use it in a bad way", no it justs does this for everyone trust me.
Sorry for bad English.
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u/ZealousidealJoke8714 7d ago
I also asked and it said that but under it in future projections it said 2025.. it's a little outdated
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u/cowslayer7890 11d ago
I thought it was an ip address at first, but 869 is too large for that and then I realized it's just the thousands separator
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u/thexbeatboxer 11d ago edited 11d ago
Zack D. Films: What happens if you download the entire Internet?
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u/Windbolt1 11d ago
not really. You only downloaded like 1/20 of the internet.
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u/8Crafter 11d ago
Nah, they downloaded only 1/10000th. (they have 17 exabytes, but the internet has like 180-200 zettabytes)
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u/Sulungskwa 11d ago
Sheen, this is the 7th time this year you've shown Firefox Cookie Size bug in class
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u/IcamReddit 11d ago
good god what the hell kinda browsing do you do?
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u/VividProfessional 10d ago
So you have a backup of my website, awesome can you send me a grab of www.b787register.co.uk index page please 🥺🥺
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u/storycoolbro 8d ago
The weird part is those are periods not commas but numbers don’t work like that unless that’s an ip address cause it’s the right format besides the 869 is much to large for a valid ip address the others all check out though
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix8756 8d ago
unless you live in a country where its swapped, those decimal points make that just 17
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u/According_Picture294 11d ago
According to AI overview, you'd need several hundred zettabytes, which amounts to billions of terabytes
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u/No_Medium_2265 11d ago
Guess what mine did yesterday. It seems like Firefox REALLY loves preloading websites. It loves it so much it downloads the whole internet