Google is moving to quickly kill internet search and replace it with a closed ecosystem of LLM-generated answers. This will change the entire economics of how the internet works.

Welcome to the future, where asking a question costs $4.99 and you’ll never be able to find out if the answer is right or not.

  • zout@fedia.io
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    13 days ago

    the initial intent of what the internet was supposed to be

    A communication network for scientists and the military?

    • 𝕋𝕚𝕕𝕓𝕚𝕋@mander.xyzEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Good call, I should have worded that better. While the government and scientists were instrumental in creating the foundation for the internet, I was thinking more along the lines of the early PC era. When the internet was more or less a tool for openly sharing and discussing information as well as ideas.

      But a lot of tech stems from governmental need and/or government funding. I mean, the modern refrigerator was a result of NASA problem solving for the environmental conditions found in space! GPS, LASIK, MRI’s, LED’s, barcodes, closed captioning, and the human genome project were all also thanks to government research too!