I love how they quietly got rid of any mention of Don't be evil from their press. It's like oh, so you are definitely about to start doing some evil shit then.
They never got rid of it. It was simply moved it to a different spot in their code of conduct (rather than being in the introduction, it was moved to the closing line).
That combination of words may be impossible to not sing once you’ve processed them.
It’s like hearing the opening to Butterfly or Can’t fight the moonlight.
The utility of AI is debatable. But what’s hilarious is… there are ways they could implement GenAI that would make it *feel* like a useful tool.
However, they instead tried to make it a replacement for their most useful product, trusting its output to replace all information. They… failed. Badly.
The less useful you are, the more impressions you get and the more ads you can serve. Need to be as least useful as possible to optimize those ads impressions.
Wonder how long it'll take to get to "Don't be", followed by "Don't.." as whatever ends up supplanting it, does so.
I remember it once being a lovely, efficient little ad-free search engine.
How far it has tilted the other way.
What a shame.
