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Casey Newton May 15, 2024

With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

Google’s broken link to the web

With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background

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Ali May 15, 2024

@caseynewton Casey, a fundamental issue here, that feels like it’s just skipped over consistently is whether those in-search AI results are *correct* and *true*.

I propose that they are not, and they never can be, because Google has not, and can not solve for “Garbage In, Garbage Out”, because the garbage was already ingested.

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@grissallia @caseynewton

Everybody on the outside is screaming about it. Everybody who's salary depends on pushing out AI is deflecting.

Yes, people will 100% trust what the computer tells them. Right up until it causes enough trouble that society just gives up on ever using Google for anything. But it'll have to be that bad for people to come to their skeptical senses. Google is working on either killing itself, or civilization. That's both options.