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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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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Yeah, let's absolve the individuals working at the companies who did this from all responsibility by blaming an abstract concept instead.

Capitalism may be the game, and Google may have only been one of the players, but they're still playing dirty.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Because if Google didn't exists, another company would have done the exact same. So yes, I think its pretty accurate to blame the system that make this business plan the only one to succeed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So the people who made those decisions just get a free pass then?

Come on, let's hold people accountable. The system sucks, I agree, but the issues are massively exacerbated by the rich and powerful not being held accountable. So don't let them hide behind economic ideologies or legal entities; point your finger at them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

both of you can be right at the same time. just saying.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

But which one do you think will lead to change? Blaming abstract concepts, or holding the people who are responsible accountable?

I see no value in denouncing capitalism.

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