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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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[–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Goolag went completely off the rails when they decided to drop the “Don’t Be Evil” pledge. There were whole projects dropped on a dime the moment anyone questioned if a certain project or action was “evil”. Now nobody at Goolag even cares anymore. It’s all about that $earch For More $$$; anyway they can get it.

It will ultimately be their downfall, mmw.

https://lemmy.world/c/goolag

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago*

    "Don't be evil" is still the last line of Google's corporate conduct. Seemingly not many people understand that Alphabet is Google's parent company, not their direct replacement, and all they did was change it to "Do the right thing", because generally when you're broken up in anti-trust measures, you don't want to just rename your company.

    Note: I am not arguing that Google is a "Good" company. It's just nonsensical to point to a completely arbitrary "Evil" in their policy and say that without that they would, y'know, be evil. Particularly when Google itself still has that policy.

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