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Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I

40 points johnny313 58 minutes ago 12 comments

gnabgib 56 minutes ago | parent

Discussion (51 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353192

ceejayoz 40 minutes ago | parent

That was originally this link. The mods changed it.

schaefer 40 minutes ago | parent

Now if only they would turn off their malicious ad network for these schools too...

Surac 38 minutes ago | parent

Best that can happen to the schools. There are other search engines too

utopcell 35 minutes ago | parent

..that don't have AI integrated?

jordanb 33 minutes ago | parent

DDG tried to get me to use AI once. I sain "no" and never saw it again

oidar 28 minutes ago | parent

Kagi can turn off AI if setup to do so.

dmix 37 minutes ago | parent

Making a whole separate search engine that isn't deeply integrated with AI is probably a big ask. Even for a company like Google.

piltdownman 31 minutes ago | parent

This is technically correct, but the inferral is Google forcing some kind of Faustian pact on the vulnerable.

Simply put, Google's Search and AI tools are now inextricably combined. If you opt-out of AI tooling, then by proxy you are opting out of what Google choses to provide as a 'Search' offering.

It's not a punitive measure, just the reality of a paradigm shift.

waffletower 28 minutes ago | parent

Why would schools even want search engines? Hell, they only need one book as well. I know, I know that freedom of religion thing in the U.S. constitution. I think they need to ban books altogether then. Go back to Socratic verbal learning. Crayons and pencils might dull the kids minds too. Definitely don't let them speak to machine demons that claim to know everything -- they might learn how to escape the techno-feudalism that is coming for them!