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Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] Q67916tJ6Z0aWM@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ive had to start putting ublock origin on cuatomers systems by default. The web has become a far worse cesspool for scams than what it was a few years ago. The ads blend in with real content. The internet is a shit hole now.

[–] Bebo@literature.cafe 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously, browsing the internet without an adblocker is a horrible experience. So Firefox with ublock origin is my go to.

[–] rzlatic@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

(aside of social network's disinformation, conspiracies, hate breeding and false news) this is prime example of what the internet ended up as, to a regular user: how-i-experience-web-today.com

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I lol'd, this is great and too fucking accurate.