I wrote about Apple's privacy promise yesterday — then Google held I/O and made the whole thing worse. They didn't build a better search, they built a cage out of the old one funneling you right into their AI and likely away from the actual sources of what you searched for.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/every-road-leads-to-google
#google #apple #ai #privacy #gemini #search #googleio #bigtech #userhostile #agentic #blog
@ppb1701 Here is my concern about this path:
- If you use AI search, are you certain the results are what you asked for and not what the company wants you to see? I left Google search behind years ago because the results catered more to marketing than a user query.
- If you use AI search, are you giving up the right to self-determination by suspending your mental capacity to spot the results that are meant to sway you in a different direction than you intend?
- If you ask anyone - anyone - if they are in control, the answer is always yes. But are they in control of the AI search?
Also, a note to @jerry: I didn't know autocomplete had "sled-determination" instead of "self-determination"and "anyvibe" instead of "anyone." It's good to know sleds are sentient.
@AAKL @ppb1701 I am feeding everyone’s keystrokes into copilot so it can guess what you want to type* and it seems like it just needs some work.
* that was joke. Mastodon doesn’t have autocomplete** so it was probably your browser or app misfiring. Mine keeps trying to change my curse words to something more benign.
** that’s a lie. Hashtags do have an autocomplete function
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