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As hyperbolic as this title sounds... This will basically make Google into even more of a monopolistic power than it has been. It's the zero-click web: you Google a question, you read the Google AI result, then you remain on Google.

For the average boomer with a computer, this is basically 50% of the internet. The other 50% is Facebook and maybe ESPN. The most popular computers run like molasses, chugging at every click. And any website that doesn't fit within this tightly walled garden has either been choked out of existence or is so laden with advertisements that it forces the average user to run back to the relatively comfortable walled garden.

(I'm summarizing that last paragraph - using what's left of my human Intelligence - from a section of a much better Ed Zitron article.)

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"Pause" and not "Stop" is concerning.

Is it just me, or was the addition of AI summaries basically predetermined? The AI panel probably would only be attended by a small portion of editors (introducing selection bias) and it's unclear how much of the panel was dedicated to simply promoting the concept.

I imagine the backlash comes from a much wider selection of editors.

Ironically, this new China policy would only require them to give you an ID that the government knows is associated with you. In other words, on a technical level, it might be more private than their current system.

In the United States, the concept of a digital ID is reprehensible because it would be far worse than the status quo.

Note this court order is exclusively for an ongoing case into copyright infringement.

I'm of two minds of this.

• On one hand, I don't want to normalize forcing companies to collect data on users and retain it past their stated deletion dates. OpenAI (allegedly) deletes customer data after some time, and I'd like to hold them to that!
• On the other hand, I trust OpenAI as far as I can throw them. The only reason they would ever delete data, as they state themselves, is for business interests. They probably want to keep corporate clients more than they want to risk the leakage of sensitive client information.

I wish. Elon Musk was inspired by WeChat, and the US has already started sending undesirables to faraway labor camps. Praise of the Taliban has been... Not uncommon in conservative circles as far back as 2021, and there's nothing unusual about the current administration copping CCP rules while pretending to oppose them.

I believe so, based on another article I read

Interesting you added "Russia" to the title, but couldn't be bothered to name the US as another surveillance state.

If I didn't know better, I'd say you didn't care about privacy at all, and were only stoking nationalistic fears.

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