Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

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    1 year ago

    “dangerously close”?

    “There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.” – Edward Tufte

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      “There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.” – Edward Tufte

      lol! I had never heard of that quote before now, ty for sharing!