“AI-generated brain rot"

That's the excuse that was given by the Canadian Broadcasting "Corporation" channel (it's like their government's version of NPR), to push on Google to censor a competitor, which was a large Youtube Channel that was critical of the Canadian government.

Google did indeed takedown and wipe that particular huge channel after this pressure, citing it as a "content farm". [1] But isn't Google's whole routine that AI is good? I mean, they literally made Bard, which is AI.

I think more and more we're going to see things the establishment just disagrees with being labeled "spam". But with AI that has opinions that they want to shove down our throats, that is a "ground-breaking tool". That's why Microsoft's Bing API (which many search engines use, such as Duckduckgo), is shifting to AI only [2]. They're ending giving the actual results, and forcing it to go through their filter, to blend their political opinions with the raw facts.

The end goal is the user can not distinguish between the opinion of the search engine's developer with the underlying truth. I only wish the Canadian government would see Microsoft and Google for what they really are... “AI-generated brain rot"

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