tanteSo Google really wants to kill the web and search?
The Dubster@tante Haven't they already?
the input device is not a TTY@tante what have they done now?
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Tommi đ€Ż@tante No surprise
At least webrings will be so back
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eclexic@tante I am pretty sure their ideal world, and the ideal world of all these companies, is to have their chatbot intercede twice in _every_ communication.
It should change your outputs to remove nuance from your meaning, and then expand it so the entropy goes too low for a person to stand reading it. So, others must summarise with a bot. A second chance to inject what they want.
They want us to feel small if we don't use it to produce, and to feel overwhelmed if we don't use it to consume.
Stephen Shankland@tante I don't think Google wants to kill the web as such. On the contrary I suspect it really wants the web to thrive, if nothing else as a source of training data. I don't think it's figured out a way to push its AI priorities that doesn't continue to do businesses on the web serious harm.
Ronan@stshank @tante I agree. I think in time they'll come to regret this. Updating the internet will be a thankless task that brings no one any traffic, your info gets robbed safe presented as Google's own. Eventually (soon) people will stop putting anything of worth on the internet, which will become nothing but bots spiralling misinformation.
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Sassinake! á âȘ â© âgoogle wants to kill independent thought, making 'thinking outside the box' illegal to impossible.
0xDECAFBAD@tante All of these AI guys want to paywall the worldâs knowledge that they stole and make it impossible to access without a subscription ⊠that will increase 6%/year to serve you better.
Nicole ParsonsWe need to keep in mind who is funding the Qrazie at Google.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour
The fossil fuel industry, the most corrupt industry on the planet.
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/inside-the-plot-to-cover-europe-with-gas-powered-ai-data-centres/
AI burns through fossil fuels at a prodigious clip.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub
AI drives up energy prices
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/saudi-arabias-humain-picks-goldman-sachs-advise-data-centre-financing-sources-2026-05-19/
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052026/nextera-dominion-utility-mega-merger/
AI suppresses wages & increases unemployment rates
https://www.inc.com/associated-press/gates-foundation-ballmer-group-1-billion-ai-tools-frontline-workers/91215095
Peach âFuzzâ Fae@slyborg Its kinda sad. I spent my last 35 working years in IT so I felt like I would see the dream become reality. Now, jaded old me it just about convinced that âheck, I grew up without an Internetâ maybe it would be better/safer to die without it tooâŠ
Entirio Rotokoly@tante As of now the Google search engine is broken anyway: I got zero results when I was looking for a name, or looking for stores of certain type. Other search engines pointed me to correct links.
Sjoerd Stendahl@tante Just want to plug @kagihq
Not affiliated, but it reminds a bit of Google in 2015. Clean results, no ads, no AI unless you ask for it, you can downrank, uprank or block domains for your future results. And one of my favorites, their index is based on what gives good results, not on what makes them most money.
Downside is that itâs paid (which is why they donât need to rank for ads). But for me itâs more than worth it.
@sstendahl @kagihq I switched to kagi a few months ago
^. .^ Paul Wilde 
@tante @sstendahl @kagihq I'd like to like Kagi, the results seem great but I just wish there was a subscription level without access to the AI assistant.
They say it's opt-in and that's technically true, but paying for a service that has access to it regardless bothers me.
They say it's opt-in and that's technically true, but paying for a service that has access to it regardless bothers me.
toni / link@paul @tante @sstendahl @kagihq this is also what's keeping me from signing up for a plan. i don't want to spend money on other peoples tokens. right now im on ddg and only use kagi when i think there could be better results (I. e. as a fallback instead of google)
@paul @sstendahl @kagihq I fully support that. Would love to have a Kagi subscription without the LLM bullshit.
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