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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      If you knew nothing about Africa, congratulations, you don’t know that Kenya exists. It’s a microcosm of what would be a major problem if you don’t fact-check the bot.

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        That’s not asking for fact checks. That’s telling the machine it’s wrong. It thinks of you as acting in good faith, so it reacts accordingly.

        This, like most of these criticisms, has fundamental misunderstandings about the technology.

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          You didn’t understand what I was saying. You have to independently fact check the bot which means performing Google searches anyway. At that point, it’s redundant to even ask the bot if the endpoint is the same, you’ll be on whatever search engine you’re using trawling results.

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          “The only reason people criticize something is because they don’t understand it.”

          This is the same person who defended NFT’s on the basis that “people just don’t get it, maaaan, it’s gonna revolutionize, like, the wooorld.” Without thinking about the social or ethical consequences of embracing a technology that has no social or ethical safeguards.

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            I’d say you’re closer to that person since you’re the one spouting bullshit about a technology you fundamentally don’t understand.

            This article isn’t even about openai’s chatGPT - it’s about an AI that filters the active internet. Try perplexity.ai a few times and let me know if you still think the tech is useless. It’s a baby even in comparison to the baby AIs we have now and I haven’t touched google since I started using it.