Cory Doctorow#Google's #AIHype Circle: We have to do #Bard because everyone else is doing #AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard.
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
Google's plummeting search quality made the company desperate to please its "activist investors"
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
#SecurityThroughObscurity #SearchQuality #Enshittification #Google
Google can improve search, or it can chase stock gains through #AIHype. It chose the latter
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
We saw this movie before. Remember the 3,000,000 truckers who were about to lose their jobs to #SelfDriving tech?
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
Executives ALREADY treat writers like #chatbots.
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary@pluralistic Apparently execs *think of* writers like chatbots, too. They seem to have no concept of "art", "entertainment", or "information", only of weird squiggles and pictures that inexplicably cause products to sell. If this article is any indication and can be applied more broadly than comic books, execs would just stream static if they could.
https://adeptpress.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/at-corporate-they-just-sell-paper/
