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

submitted 11 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mmm, but what's their plan to resist enshittification? After all, Google started out as "fundamentally different, user-centric." What will Kagi do when their market penetration peaks and the business managers demand more growth?

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You have to pay for kagi so they are not incentivized to serve ads. They are incentivized to give you a good set of search results so you keep paying.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lots of services are both paid and still show ads. Like cable TV

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

And Microsoft Windows.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

They're not market-leading, but if they would be why wouldn't they enshittify?

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. The simple fact is, people need to get more willing to pay for things with money instead of personal data. Nothing is free, but we like the idea that things don't cost money, and instead we've allowed corporations to literally buy and monetize our very selves.

[–] ThePenitentOne@discuss.online 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Problem is, a lot of people don't have a lot of money because of how the world has been allowed to go. Everything is funnelled towards the worst people who go unpunished somehow. There needs to be an uprising or something.

[–] dlrht@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just curious, in the hypothetical situation that 100% of users on the web used Kagi how is it any different? They'll demand more growth at that point but how would they achieve it? I don't see how paying for the service avoids the issue of the product becoming worse as a result of peak market penetration and needing new methods of growth

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

They charge an assload to use their service.