[Technology] Technology general

[@Cicada3301AU]

The founders of the internet must be quite disturbed, I'm sure, about what we've done to what was once a brilliant platform for creative expression and communication.

https://www.afr.com/technology/the-trut ... 521-p5jffc

[@Cicada3301AU]

This is worrying.
As a publisher, I understand and share the same concerns.
Using AI, Google Search will implement snippets and summaries of web content from sites in search results.
Publishers say this will stop traffic being directed to their sites.
Google says it will increase traffic to the sites.
This is a case of Google taking care of its own.
It will seriously curb traffic to sites and any notion put forward by Google is corporate spin and self-serving propaganda.
Users are lazy.
They already are too lazy to read an actual news article in its entirety, instead choose to skim headlines only, believing they then know the full story.
Google AI powered search with extended snippets and summaries will only give users another excuse to not visit the actual publishers website and keep you with Google's own monetized ecosystem.

https://www.afr.com/technology/why-publ ... 611-p5jkya

[@Cicada3301AU]

The author rightly points out there is no silver bullet response.
However, there is a lot of talking points which deserve more consultation.
I'm confident the private sector and big tech, together, can develop effective and trustful solutions, without breaching the borders and falling into censorship territory.
Governments are the problem.
Their solution to everything is to just cancel and censor, and pretend the underlying problem has been fixed.
That is what the private sector and big tech must work hard to avoid.

https://www.afr.com/technology/we-can-t ... 815-p5k2u9

[@Cicada3301AU]

A good rant.

https://www.androidauthority.com/ways-t ... se-3475699

[@Cicada3301AU]

A good summary and conclusion to the Financial Review-led investigation into the rise and fall of Richard White, of WiseTech.

https://www.afr.com/technology/how-rich ... 025-p5klcx