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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by arnaudsm on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:13AM (#42115621)
This is the best (and saddest) answer. LLMs break the social contract of the internet, we're in a feudalisation process.

The decentralized nature of the internet was amazing for businesses, and monopolization could ruin the space and slow innovation down significantly.

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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by ColinHayhurst on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:14AM (#42116078)
> LLMs break the social contract of the internet

The legal concept of fair usage has and is being challenged, and will best tested in court. Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over? Maybe [0].

[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2024/05/is-the-golden-age-of-fair-us...

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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by tensor on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @03:27PM (#42119376)
While LLMs have accelerated, it, it was already the case that silos were blocking non-Google and non-Bing results before LLMs. LLMs have only made existing problems of the web worse, but they were problems before LLMs too and banning LLMs won't fix the core issues of silos and misinformation.
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