Not sure I understand @leo's argument on WW. Is he saying the AI companies did not steal? Or they did steal but the law should be changed to make it OK to steal if the purpose of the theft is to produce some potentially revolutionary tech?
1/ Have you noticed that results returned by #search engines like #Google seem to be becoming progressively less useful? Despite Google's best efforts & frequent algorithm changes, the #SEO industry seems to be winning the battle to render the #web perfectly vacuous & entirely useless.
Talia Goldberg's article:
https://talia.gold/2022/10/31/a-trillion-dollar-opportunity/
reflects on what we might want from the next Google. I don't agree with everything she says, but it's worth a quick read.