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Andrew Gretton

@donnodubus for sure, and the reference source materials are more authoritative. However, consider the utility of an LLM that's "right" most of the time. If it can tell me - more quickly and mostly accurately - how to roast hazelnuts, the average internet user will prefer that experience to Googling/DDGing/etc which today is a toxic experience due to webspam etc.

It's utility over ethics; maybe Napster all over again? And we know what "won" for years until iTunes and Spotify won. For a while.

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Donnodubus

@andrewgretton well the webspam problem is driven by AI, so that's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Convenient that these new capital ventures are being sold as the solution to the problem they made...

Andrew Gretton

@donnodubus very good point. Albeit depressing 😬 There's probably a good amount of money in a genuinely useful and entirely new search engine these days. I'm not sure Kagi and co are it, though, despite their innovative approaches.

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