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Five hundred gajillion dollars spent so we can end up in the same place except with these five men making all the money instead of those five men. Whee.
by coldpie 1y ago
Five hundred gajillion dollars spent so we can end up in the same place except with these five men making all the money instead of those five men. Whee.
- rhetocj23 1y agoIs this a surprise though? This is the culture of America in a nutshell. Steve Jobs was a weirdo in that regard and an outlier.
- coldpie 1y agoWho said anything about being surprised?
- politelemon 1y agoNo, and no.
- NoahZuniga 1y agoGoogle is a public company! You could have been one of "those five men".
- clayhacks 1y agoYes of course, let me buy a sizable chunk of one of the largest companies in the world so I can be on the five men. Owning a few shares is not the same thing as actually making all the money someone at the top of Google is making.
- renewiltord 1y agoIt was started in a garage. George Bush didn't give them the company.
- AlexandrB 1y agoDon't forget all the extra electricity required to achieve roughly the same thing!
- lomase 1y agoArguabilly we are in worst place than when Google Search was not enshittified.
- darth_avocado 1y agoIt’s not just that, if asking the AI agent is going to give me the same experience google search gives me today, that’s just a few hundred billion dollars we could’ve just not spent.
- JambalayaJimbo 1y agoThere is a massive difference between an AI agent understanding the intent of my question, and keyword search on old (pre-enshittified) search engines. Even if OpenAI needs to feed the VC beast, they will always be open source LLMs that can be used freely inside home-made search engines.