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

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Google wants to take over the web

Its new plan for search shows how AI hype hides the real threat of increased corporate power

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@parismarx I think AI is in this case just another tool for big monopolistic tech companies. AI itself is not the problem. As long as it is profitable and legal for a company to close of their ecosystem and have a monopol, this process will continue.