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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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But, it's not just about humans doing the Googling.

The information people want has to come from humans in the real world. If you ask Google for a cake recipe, someone somewhere has to have baked cakes and written it down, and it won't be anyone at Google.

This is Google stealing the info, and not giving anything back at all. AI/LLM search isn't going to be sustainable if actual knowledge is just co-opted by Google with zero credit to its creators. Why would anyone bother publishing cake recipes if it just gets slurped and stolen instantly?

Where is Google going to get data to steal if they've destroyed the web?

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@FediThing @caseynewton

Google has lost the ability to look further than the quarterly share dividend, the fate of many tech companies. Now they're living off the efforts of other tech companies, stealing their ideas, the end-game.