That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn it less money than it earns by serving ads with its old-school search engine.

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I hope this leads to the great rejection. Google is generally just stealing content, packaging it up and trying to give it to you without crediting any source. I think now people are much more protective of said information, even if they publish it at all. I don’t know how long it’ll take, but there will be less to scrape and train models on as time goes on. Everyone will also start rejecting these AI queries on their sites too.