Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

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56. Profitable, because we are a post-literate society.

When I joined DU in 2009, I was a tech optimist, believing that websites like this and social networks like Facebook would enable a true marketplace of ideas. Barack Obama is said to be the first social media president.

Unfortunately in retrospect I should have been less naive. I remember seeing plenty of ill-informed blogs, personal websites, and chainmails in the 2000s and early 2010s. But those were the kid's meal compared to the sewage on modern day Facebook or Twitter.

As was written in a blog in 2016:

Populism is great and can be an engine of change, but one ought to worry when the “ordinary working people” are poorly educated, and a quarter of your base is dead wrong on simple facts, that there is also potential for disaster.

Same goes for AI and chatbots.