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Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Sure. But also the tech bro culture of "I'm not responsible for the consequences of my choices, so long as there is a computational layer between those consequences and me".

Silicon Valley, and it's legion of brown nosers, all love to believe that "I didn't think..." is a valid excuse, not a self-indictment.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

culture of “I’m not responsible for the consequences of my choices, so long as there is a ~~computational ~~layer between those consequences and me”.

yeah because that's totally unique to techbros who definitely ushered it in and not simply most capitalists in general

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