In the past, only certain people had access to, or claimed to have access to knowledge and fed it to the masses.
Then we learned to read and figure stuff out on our own.
Now with AI and Big Tech, we’re going back to only certain people having access to knowledge (or claiming to have access to knowledge) and feeding it to the masses.
Double down with that, with googles new plans for gemini to overtake search… they really are going that direction… combining that with musks currently failing but obvious goal to make grok agree with right wing concepts. It’s really quite a terrifying end direction. Especially when you think of the end result of the AI replacing search on the long term of things. Because the chilling effect it has IF it works. IE say if google actually correctly agregates everything on the internet, and even IF it perfectly differentiates truth from BS. What happens to the places that actually do the work to get that truth, when people don’t click to their pages. No ads or subscriptions, means they get nothing, which means they eventually go bankrupt, and thus no new information gets fed to the AIs, and the only ones that are left to make pages to give new sources, are governments and corporations that have motive to convince the data lords to see them favorably.