Google’s vision for the future of search shows how generative AI is all about increasing corporate power.
Instead of sending you to different websites, Google has scraped the open web to generate plagiarized answers to keep you looking at ads on Google. We need to stop being distracted by AI hype and fantasies about intelligent machines, so we can push back on the real threats before it’s too late.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/google-wants-to-take-over-the-web
@parismarx
I think this is a hugely cynical take on what most people would consider an amazing advance in user interfaces. People want the "question answering machine". Right now, large language models are the closest we get to that.
This is not to excuse the training process, which has troubling implications for content ownership. And the model of surfing the web for the information will totally change.
But I think it's twisted to fault Google for building the search interface that people want. If they don't, someone else will, and people will use that website instead.
Paris Marx
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