OpenAI could unveil its Google search competitor on Monday

Re:OpenAI could unveil its Google search competitor on Monday by Nevermark on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:47AM (#40318317)

> “People come to us because we are trusted,” said Raghavan.

Well I don’t. Kagi is much better. Thank you, Kagi.

I shouldn’t be emotional about this, but I find I am getting very angry with these large companies with business models that use their users.

There doesn’t seem to be any way for them to avoid getting worse, given their market caps and multiples have years of continued innovation in user surveillance and manipulation priced in.

(And in general, I am not against success.)

I hope the AI industry keeps a healthy paid tier going. Because mass free, ad-driven AI is not going to be pretty.

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Re:OpenAI could unveil its Google search competitor on Monday by maxerickson on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:49AM (#40318337)

There's no reason to reserve you ire for large companies, any business that chooses to make their product irritating for some incremental increase in profitability deserves our scorn.

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Re:OpenAI could unveil its Google search competitor on Monday by Nevermark on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:06PM (#40322735)

I think irritating vs. insidious are different.

And pervasive vs. easily avoided are different.

And I can think of other differences.

With respect to surveillance especially: Scale has a quality all its own.

I grant that I do notice when any service or product has obvious unaddressed flaws. But that is a different tier from companies globally warping the fabric of society.

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Re:OpenAI could unveil its Google search competitor on Monday by dpkirchner on Friday May 10, 2024 @05:22PM (#40323918)

I think it's fair to be angry that Google has used their power to, frankly, ruin large parts of the web by incentivizing bad behavior.

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