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Re:Google Search Is Dying by echelon on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:22AM (#35039750)
Even if Google had been good stewards, they failed to diversify.

AI AdBlock is going to kill whatever is left of Google within the year.

AI content spam is absolutely going to kill social media and search results, but AI adblock will be worse to Google's bottom line.

It's coming, and it's going to be brutal.

Re:Google Search Is Dying by greyman on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:37AM (#35039842)
In what sense will it kill social media?
Re:Google Search Is Dying by echelon on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:45AM (#35039893)
Unless social media websites begin to require ID verification, they'll be flooded with LLM-powered bots. Humans will tire of this.
Re:Google Search Is Dying by regularfry on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:29AM (#35040204)
We can't be far off the state where any captcha-style humanity test that can be implemented is immediately vulnerable to bots, too.
Re:Google Search Is Dying by drowsspa on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:09AM (#35040510)
Not captchas, OP probably means actual IDs. And to be honest, with some cryptography surely we can find a way to make it work and be anonymous
Re:Google Search Is Dying by JohnFen on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:33PM (#35047938)
I simply cannot imagine being willing to provide identity documents to any of the social media/advertising companies. They would have to somehow demonstrate they're trustworthy first.
Re:Google Search Is Dying by michaelt on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:57AM (#35039974)
The bit of social media people use to talk to their IRL friends and family will be fine.

But the bit of social media where people are listening to celebrities, getting their news, sharing memes, discussing common interests? It might get flooded with bots so convincing as to be indistinguishable from normal users.

Re:Google Search Is Dying by happymellon on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:22AM (#35040168)
It's as soon as it learns that X celebrity is dead generates clicks.

Then folks will learn not to trust it just because it is a computer once everyone is announced dead, and everyone will have to make claims that they aren't.

Re:Google Search Is Dying by worrycue on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:47AM (#35040324)
So Facebook is the one most likely to survive. Reddit, Twitter, Hacker News, ... etc. soon to be flooded with LLM generated spam.
Re:Google Search Is Dying by phreeza on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:10AM (#35040081)
Last I checked, non AI AdBlock already works pretty well, why would you need AI?
Re:Google Search Is Dying by maleldil on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:48AM (#35040909)
Why do you believe that users will start using this "AI AdBlock"? Regular ad blockers are enough to cover current ads. Google also controls the main browser in the biggest mobile OS (Chrome on Android), and it doesn't support ad blockers. There are options (Firefox, Brave, Kiwi, etc.), but most users don't bother.