🔥 “Google and Bing are locked in an arms-race to see whose search engine can attain the speediest, most profound enshittification via chatbot, replacing links to web-pages with florid paragraphs composed by fully automated, supremely confident liars.”

Via @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/

Pluralistic: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble (09 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@jon @pluralistic love that the internet’s new primary function is conjuring obstacles for blocking / frustrating people’s access to information rather than facilitating it. Chokepoint capitalism bizarro world.
@keengrasp @pluralistic more like controlling it. It’s AOL all over again.