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I honestly think it's a weapon. Polluting the internet the way militaries jam radio signals with noise. Digital chaff. @violetmadder @ricci @regehr @dan I think you might be missing the FEAR driving Google. OpenAI is to Google as Netscape was to Microsoft - a sign that there's is a new technology on the market (ChatGPT) that is about to destroy your money printing machine (Google search). Microsoft reacted to Netscape by trying to rebuild their operating system around the browser so deeply that they would own the Internet. Google is scrambling to build so much AI into search that a competitor has no chance to get a foothold. |
@regehr @dan to be fair (more fair to them than they deserve), the AI summary has to be turned on explicitly as a 'labs' feature, which is probably why you weren't reproducing it - I turned it on in the Google Android app (since I never use that anyway)
Of course to be *actually* fair, these things have been spitting out this junk very publicly for 18 months and they are still bulldozing ahead