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Reading blog post https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-bots-tout-slavery-genocide written by Avram Piltch about what kinds of crap are automatically generated by Google's chatbot assistants.
"Because it plagiarizes from other peoples’ content, [Google] SGE doesn’t have any sense of proprietary, morality, or even logical consistency."
"Google is no longer acting as a librarian that curates content, but has turned itself into a publisher with a loud-mouthed opinion columnist it can’t control."
@autiomaa Correction: Google never was a librarian. To say otherwise is hugely offensive to actual librarians and libraries everywhere.
Google is, and has always been, a venture capital funded surveillance capitalist.
@aral For sure, but even a "librarian" is more accurate description of the past version of Google Search, compared to what it became in the past decade.
Few decades ago, a person (with good connections to international technology companies) told how most of the early search engine companies had early stage funding from intelligence agencies. Because it made sense for both sides of the business. Consumers were just a side effect. It's literally a commercial surveillance, with integrations.