Welllllll this isn't great.

[dijumx@mstdn.social]

@grammasaurus @ErikvanStraten @SteveRudolfi sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Damage to a company's reputation, and revenue, via misrepresentation and interference.

[netzhexe@chaos.social]

@SteveRudolfi I am choosing to look on the bright side of this: it’s an excellent reason to stop using Google as a search engine.

[kerfuffle@mastodon.online]

@SteveRudolfi Sounds like they want to compete with https://web.archive.org but instead of archiving actual content, they want to rewrite history. Sounds like a bad idea.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@SteveRudolfi

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Google takes #PrinceBonesaw money and converts a search engine into "bait & switch" AI Slopware.

Plans for fossil fuel fascist state surveillance platforms proceed."

The fossil fuel industry is going to keep its captive consumers one way or another, no matter what.

Access Denied

(www.cnbc.com)

Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there

Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)

reuters.com

(www.reuters.com)

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

Saudi AI firm to buy 600,000 Nvidia chips in US push | The Jerusalem Post

US–Saudi investments unveiled on Wednesday, one day earlier, during MBS’s first Washington visit since 2018.

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com (www.jpost.com)

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

(www.bloomberg.com)

[r_aherin@mapstodon.space]

@SteveRudolfi I hate that last line "The question isn’t how to stop this from happening, it’s how to make sure your parts are the ones AI wants to work with."

Like nah bro, I'm good. I don't want to just lay down and let this bullshit take over without a fight.

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@dijumx @grammasaurus @ErikvanStraten @SteveRudolfi on its face it sounds like an unauthorized derivative work, which might have been actionable before the courts ruled that using LLMs for copyright laundering is legal. I hope the other actions are still viable

[cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com]

@SteveRudolfi "The question isn’t how to stop this from happening, it’s how to make sure your parts are the ones AI wants to work with." and this is where I was reminded I was reading from Forbes, spineless plutocrats' sycophants that they are.

[caiocgo@social.vivaldi.net]

@SteveRudolfi if we thought that with WordPress all websites looked the same, imagine with this.

[crecente@games.ngo]

@SteveRudolfi

FYI, this article misstates how a #patent works :

"This isn’t a feature announcement, it’s a patent, meaning Google has legally protected the ability to do this."

A patent holder may arguably prohibit others from using that patent.

However, a patent holder must still follow any laws and regulations when using that patent. A patent is not permission to break laws / contracts / etc.

[crecente@games.ngo]

@grammasaurus @SteveRudolfi

No, a patent holder must still follow the law.

[beldarak@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@SteveRudolfi

What the actual fuck?! How is this even legal?

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@SteveRudolfi, ugh. Also, whoever wrote that doesn't know that “maybe” is not “may be”)…

[ivolimmen@toot.community]

@SteveRudolfi so... basically a patented version of a scam site???

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@SteveRudolfi #AI is #clankers all the way down.

#Resist #clankers , #wankers and their #AIslop.

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@petealexharris @ErikvanStraten @grammasaurus @SteveRudolfi The idea is not that they redirect requests to your URL. They want to show a link in their search results to a page dynamically generated by AI, above (or maybe: instead of) the link to your URL.

[ulrich@social.server17.net]

@SteveRudolfi

That is wrong for so many different reasons that you could fill an entire conference with talks on the subject. Even then, there would surely still be more to say.

[stonedonkey@mastodon.social]

@SteveRudolfi I'm good with starting over, when the web was just research, people who were passionate about a topic and maybe maybe a few webrings.

No ads, no single search engine, no dark patterns, just people who loved building for others and wanted to make the place better.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@grammasaurus At least in the EU much of this could be against the law. (The question is whether anyone would report it.)

@SteveRudolfi

[tansy@wandering.shop]

@SteveRudolfi how is anyone supposed to be a journalist if google is going to rewrite articles to make them more 'palatable' for readers?

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@netzhexe That doesn't stop the umpty AI scam websites being out there and making real websites more and more invisible.

@SteveRudolfi