Google's bias is now noticeable to the normies. (Dr. Juric is at the University of Washington, for reference.) Best quote of the tweet:
for anyone with a shred of awareness of human history it should be clear how unbelievably irresponsible it is to build a system that aims to become an authoritative compendium of human knowledge (remember Google's mission statement?), but which actually prioritizes ideology over facts. History is littered with many who have tried this sort of moral flexibility "for the greater good"; rather than helping, they typically resulted in decades of setbacks (and tens of millions of victims).
It looks like the good Doctor may have had a bit too much to think...
Reminder that r slash degoogle has existed for years.
No one who cares about their privacy uses any of their shit. I never used Chrome for precisely this reason, it records everything and sends it all to Google.
I'd like to think I haven't either. But I'm pretty sure Brave is some sort of Chromium. And Steam is now using some form of Chrome for it's store.
So if you use those like me, you've used some flavor of it, like I have, whether we like it or not.
Is it telling uncle google about everything we do? I have no idea. Possibly. Maybe. They say it doesn't, but someone's word doesn't mean a whole lot anymore.
All browsers and all app interfaces are built off Chrome now, they've successfully monopolized the browser market in a way Microsoft could never have imagined 25 years ago or whenever the antitrust suit was.
I've still got a truckload of salt from the day that Opera switched over from it's in-house browsing engine to yet another bad copy of chrome.
I've yet to find a good replacement, as you said. I tend to use an unholy amalgamation of Vivaldi, Brave, and other whackass alternatives, but if anyone knows of browsers that don't use Chrome as a base, feel free to share.
You're going to have to break down and use Lynx.
The difference between Microsoft then and Google now is Microsoft forgot to pay their protection money to the feds.
Chromium aka Apple's WebKit aka linux KHTML is open source.
The real bad stuff Google adds in Chrome and isn't open-source so you can't even know what they are doing exactly without reverse engineering it.
The main bad thing about Chromium is Google runs the source and extension repo and makes it hard for derivatives like Brave to keep up with their adblock and privacy protection patches. But they can only do so much fuckery here since Brave and others can fork it at any time and take over development.
There's even an ungoogled chromium which works surprisingly well. It is however my secondary browser, Firefox supremeancy for as long as possible since I don't like Google nor the huge market share they have.
they see the millions dead as a feature, not a bug. those were subversives holding paradise back.
It's worse than you think because Google is deeply embedded in school systems all over the world. Pupils in many countries are required to make Google accounts and accept their license terms without being able to even read them (they're 6!) in order to receive instruction and hand in homework - and you can't homeschool in every country, some outright ban it. It's a bizzare legal situation that is being ignored and handwaved away, but we're now in the stage of terminal libdemism where governments requiring its citizens to use (and even pay for out of pocket) commercial products and to be bound by their ToS which can change at any time with no recourse is seen as normal instead of insane. Clown World is transitioning into Piss Earth.
And now all these kids will be schooled by this piece of shit. Hopefully it backfires brutally.
Oh, I know. Taught in a local college, they used all the Gargler stuff. Local government uses a lot, too.
Sadly, the only alternative I see is Microsoft, since they'll typically already have some deal for Office. I assume staff is too retarded/picky/non-english for stuff like LibreOffice? Is there any real third party alternative?
I recall Google got involved in schools with cheap chromebooks. And then schools had buyer's remorse when Google stopped supporting them after a few years (expecting the schools to buy new models). And then the schools went back to Microsoft. And then maybe Google backtracked a little.
Colleges use software like blackboard/canvas but I'm guessing simpleton govt would just always prefer to bundle the hardware/software.
Small white pill.
Large entities generally die well before anyone notices they've entered a death spiral. They die overnight and only in retrospect does the spiral become evident.
Google is a company, and like all companies needs to make a profit. It's profitable because it's information is good enough to sell to advertisers. If 100% information quality is omnipotence, and to be "good enough" for advertisers you only need 60%, well you'd reasonably expect that 61% is where they'd be because the returns drop off after that point.
Like all companies they operate on a razor edge and if a few people from a similar demographic de google their lives, all of a sudden that demographic becomes opaque to markets as google's ads suddenly no longer make financial sense. Now it starts to snowball as those pieces of information were used to base other decisions on, which are now based on faulty assumptions, ergo worthless. People will continue of course but when google dies, it will do so seemingly overnight. There's no better metaphor for google than the straw that broke the camels back. Because their "product" is such finely granulated user data, small disturbances to this end product have big outcomes. Than all of a sudden google see's the numbers going the wrong way, and start cutting back on all the shit google's famous for. (this is already happening btw)
The only thing he's wrong about is like others he's making it out that the google AI is doing this by itself and it's not just programmers tweaking a machine learning algorithm to spew out answers they approve of. He sort of gets it, but I won't be too hard on people that don't understand that the skynet larp is part of the marketing machine and it's all a total scam with the abilities of machine learning being I would argue at this point criminally exaggerated.
They are going to keep pretending that they've made sentient learning AI because fear sells but that's not what machine learning algorithms are.
Yea. I think this is more accurate:
I'm no expert but I imagine once they work out the Reddit data (and limit it to only the past few years), they might be able to make a more natively biased AI. But other AIs will outperform it.
This is something I've ranted about a lot, you're right in how they're going to approach the training. Selling reddit's data to an AI company is just the start, now they're going to use reddit in layman's terms as a personal 'training area' for the AI.
Much of big tech is going to go this way so I do wonder given the links reddit inevitably has to government if they're not going to use reddit as a test run to see what happens. They will then expand that shit to google and you're going to see even more of a clamp down on free speech as a result with a mega purge of again even the leftist wrongthinkers.
The reason for that is because they don't want it spewing off anything spicy which and they want to keep up the sentient AI larp giving normies the impression that what they're getting is some amazingly clever AI when it's a bunch of retards lobotomising machine learning algorithms to spew out leftist NPC talking points for them and they've realised they can easily replace the human beings that do it.
We will see this happen throughout news and it may even make it's way into television which would be extremely funny because some of the well known news anchors out there might get laid off as a result of the AI implementation. I think a big part of this is all so they can psyop the public for november.
One thing that normies just don't get is that it's not the one roach you find on the counter that's the problem, it's the thousands that are in the walls. By the time you see a problem like this, it's already too late.
I think google is going to continue hollowing out from the inside and when it finally collapses it'll somehow still be a surprise to everyone. Right now they are in the process of fucking up both analytics and adsense. Google Analytics 4 somehow requires extra setup from the user with some migration BS - it doesn't just update itself. So what's going to happen is they're going to lose a huge number of installs. Similarly, adsense requires you to integrate a "consent management platform" which probably pops up more shit for EU users and ultimately drives people away from your site or towards adblockers. Smaller sites (which are not small in aggregate due to the long tail) probably wont bother updating. Combine this with fake clicks and bot content problems, their ad business is being eaten at both ends.
The poor state of state google search has reached the general consciousness. The market is ripe for a disruptor to come in and completely take over something like image search for example. Finding free to use images, finding original sources, finding high quality versions - these tasks are impossible for normies on google. A new site could launch tomorrow and knock half a trillion off google market cap.
One of the more amusing lessons from my college classes was the day when a business prof told the class that every company had an expiration date, and even Google and Wal-Mart would eventually die. Que normies in class protesting. "So, when's the last time any of you guys bought anything from the Sears and Roebuck catalog?"
It's crazy to think about how Sears couldn't make the transition from catalog ordering to online ordering. Blockbuster couldn't figure out how to mail DVDs to people. Xerox. Kodak. Over and over.
Not while making a profit at least. We used their DVD mail service for quite a while, including for game rentals. I guess it just didn't stand out against the competition. They should have bought Redbox. I still see those around all the time.
How many of the normies in class said something to the effect of, "Number only goes up"?