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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/25347642
www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/
Replying to @GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
I haven’t used Google as a primary search engine in a decade or more. Nothing I do depends on Gemini (I don’t even use Apple Intelligence that’s a Gemini white label).
Personally, I think what Gemini is destroying is a market-based financial model that many came to associate with the Internet, information access and lifestyle.
Most of the websites I visit pre-date Google and some have gone as far as blocking all bots via robots.txt. They survive not via predatory ad networks but by donations and volunteers.
It’s why I like Lemmy; it follows the same model.
Replying to @adespoton@lemmy.ca
Just a quick correction. Robots.txt doesn’t block anything, it simply politely asks the search engine to not look here or use what is contained within. A lot of the search engines ignore this and catalogue the contents of the website anyway. And pretty much all of the AI database downloaders ignore it with impunity.