Gregory's Server@parismarx
I think this is a hugely cynical take on what most people would consider an amazing advance in user interfaces. People want the "question answering machine". Right now, large language models are the closest we get to that.
This is not to excuse the training process, which has troubling implications for content ownership. And the model of surfing the web for the information will totally change.
But I think it's twisted to fault Google for building the search interface that people want. If they don't, someone else will, and people will use that website instead.
@markstahl @parismarx Google and Amazon are good at what they do - but its the old story of do you want an economy of monopolies or lots of competing companies. Monopolies get so big they can't resist controlling the market for their own benefit ie profit and are less likely to innovate. New market entrants with less money get crushed or bought out and then shut down. Its all in any economics textbook, but just being played out in cyber space this time.