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Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay (www.theregister.com)
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Surely this is just a minor problem!

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[–] rhamph@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

The natural world does not come with a quantified representation of itself, but we are constantly awash in so much data that we forget that it must come from someone with their own interests, flaws, and ideologies, no matter what they claim, or how much computation they put it through.