Show threadkampfFeb 27
@Viss #hapsburgAI
Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Apr 30, 2024
I’ve noticed #Google getting worse for me as a user. Here’s a story from the other side, of a site going from 30-40k daily views to only 360: https://mtnweekly.com/health/google-wants-to-erase-the-mountain-weekly-news-kill-small-publishers-across-the-globe/ I honestly don’t get the endgame here. With these moves, Google is accelerating the advent of #HapsburgAI. Once all Google’s #AI can serve is AI chum from content farms, what value does Google even offer any more?
Google Wants to Destroy the Mountain Weekly News & Kill Small Publishers Across the Globe In Favor of Large Media Corporations - Mountain Weekly News

Google has decided to remove and hide most of the Mountain Weekly News content. This started during the September 2023 algorithm update.  So if you're

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Show threadCory DoctorowFeb 16, 2023

Sadowski has a great term to describe this problem: "#HapsburgAI." Just as royal inbreeding produced a generation of supposed supermen who were incapable of reproducing themselves, so too will feeding a new model on the exhaust stream of the last one produce an ever-worsening gyre of tightly spiraling nonsense that eventually disappears up its own asshole.

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