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I have a feeling this has to do with AI and all the lawsuits regarding content and copyright, storing and displaying the contents of a third party website to the end user might not be the best idea right now (I know the way back machine exists but they’re not a for profit company like google).
I won't be surprised if Archive.org ends up getting screwed at the end of this fight.
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I have a feeling this has to do with AI and all the lawsuits regarding content and copyright, storing and displaying the contents of a third party website to the end user might not be the best idea right now (I know the way back machine exists but they’re not a for profit company like google).
I can picture future HN conversations now. "It's a good thing copyright law exists to prevent AI from doing anything useful because I'm fearful of AI." "Hey, does anyone know why the web has become so boring and useless???" Who knows – maybe Google Search won't even show page descriptions in the coming years.
A paradox of politics is that the desire to not talk about politics favors the status quo, necessitating the need to talk about politics.
It's obvious to me that AI is being rolled out in just exactly the wrong way at multiple levels, creating misaligned incentives and a perversion of original goals. But the knee-jerk reactions to it that drive the creation of draconian policies were predicted almost a century ago.
It seems that everything we hold sacred is under attack in these times. The smart bet seems to be on ensh@ttification. Because the organizations that were formerly stewards of online freedom have abdicated their responsibility.
I find it helpful to remember that every misstep by established players creates an opportunity for newcomers to compete.
Matter of time before “powered by Bing” appears at the bottom.
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I can picture future HN conversations now. "It's a good thing copyright law exists to prevent AI from doing anything useful because I'm fearful of AI." "Hey, does anyone know why the web has become so boring and useless???" Who knows – maybe Google Search won't even show page descriptions in the coming years.
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -Winston Churchill A paradox of politics is that the desire to not talk about politics favors the status quo, necessitating the need to talk about politics. It's obvious to me that AI is being rolled out in just exactly the wrong way at multiple levels, creating misaligned incentives and a perversion of original goals. Bu…
Instead of "AI"(be real, llms and stable diffusion) being developed openly and studied without a profit motive, it's been thrust into the cheap world of VCs looking to extract any profit whatsoever from it, nearly immediately.
This has caused these "AI" tools to be used to steal and rehash artists work(cheapening artists because tech bros and MBAs resent art and the time it takes to perfect). Cheapening human labor(why pay a person to understand anything when you can have an llm do 20% of the job and worse).
These AI tools were thrown in the deep end with a singular purpose: Cheapen what was thought to be protected from computers, while not providing any real value to the layperson.
The average person can maybe get a funny joke, a bad few lines of code, or an ugly bespoke AI image for their medium article, but the true winners are the ones cutting jobs en masse before the tech has even matured, so both the employee and the customer gets a worse product while the MBA's show a solid quarterly report after they ran a knife across their workforce's neck.
Those with power and money have continued to show they will not use technology for any positive societal purpose until they are forced to with regulation. So we're forced to neuter the technology before it can really develop. It's like one child playing violently with a toy, forcing the teacher to take the toy away from everyone else.
Bummer to see Google actually killing a good feature. Please take me back to Google 10 years ago when they actually had working products instead of experimenting with Ai.
Yes instead of making improvements to their product like removing spam sites like Pinterest, etc - they are actually killing the good features which gives Google edge over chatgpt. Not sure what the gameplan is here.
Give them a few years at this rate, and they'll move to financialization.
A decade after that, they'll divest most of their assets and switch to providing services, like IBM, except they'll probably try doing it without adding a service team, which should make for some fun satire from The Register.