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highplainsdem

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3. When you use AI search, you're helping AI companies destroy the websites they've stolen the

Reply to QueerDuck (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 11:44 AM

Dec 11

intellectual property from, because the goal of AI search is to stop the traffic there. Sometimes they provide links, but not always, and the links provided might not be the ones most relevant to the information the AI provides. Perplexity AI, for instance - which is being sued now and should be sued out of existence, as all genAI companies should - would regularly offer near-exact copies of articles from major publications, then a list of links that buried the link to the true source under links to several blogs, etc., that made some reference to the article the content was stolen from, but didn't make the actual source and extent of the theft obvious.

The AI companies' goal is to keep people in AI search, off the source websites, and to place ads in the AI search summary. It's predatory and exploitative.

And the AI answers are often wrong.

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Is AI Making us Stupider? A short take on why that might be the wrong question. (Neil Turkewitz in Critical AI) [View all] highplainsdem Dec 11 OP

Neil on Time's Person of the Year: highplainsdem Dec 11 #1

Not for me. I love being able to use natural-language search queries to find what I need on Google... QueerDuck Dec 11 #2

When you use AI search, you're helping AI companies destroy the websites they've stolen the highplainsdem Dec 11 #3

The genie is out of the bottle. I'll continue to use AI search engines... thank you very much. QueerDuck Dec 11 #5

No, the genie isn't out of the bottle. You're making a choice to use AI search engines, not being highplainsdem Dec 11 #7

I think it's mostly good. With any advancement there will always be people who are unhappy about it... QueerDuck Dec 11 #9

You're choosing to use AI tools completely based on the theft of intellectual property. That theft highplainsdem Dec 11 #10

It's a brand new world. Not everyone will be happy. QueerDuck Dec 11 #11

No one who's ethical should be happy with generative AI. highplainsdem Dec 11 #12

I have more important things to wring my hands over and to judge others over. AI is not going away... QueerDuck Dec 11 #13

Yes, you've made your priorities very clear. highplainsdem Dec 11 #14

Good to know. QueerDuck Dec 11 #15

Agree.... anciano Dec 11 #18

There is so much wrong with the AI race. MontanaMama Dec 11 #4

Gil Duran has done a lot of writing on just how dangerous the robber-baron tech lords are. Their highplainsdem Dec 11 #8

Marking this to read later. progressoid Dec 11 #6

The dumbing down didn't start with AI, let's be real here. Jedi Guy Dec 11 #16

They've done specific studies on genAI tools, though, showing that using them dumbs users down. highplainsdem Dec 11 #17

AI is how we achieve Idiocracy... hunter Dec 11 #19

AI doesn't make people stupid. milestogo Dec 11 #20

It's making somebody stupider. Iggo Dec 11 #21