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TechTakesIt’s like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I have no idea why they would do this
I do. For the same reason they are cramming LLMs into every other product:
They need to pretend to their investors that there is an enormous market hungry for more of this, so the investors will not demand their money back.
By turning more users of existing services, into “users of Gemini”; by turning more translate requests, more email messages, more search requests, into a “Gemini usage”; they can with a straight face claim more and ever more usage and demand, propped up by users who never agreed to any of this.
From TFA:
So what do we search with instead of Google? There isn’t a lot of choice. There’s various flavours of Google or Bing.
[…] Kagi resells Google’s actual link results for a monthly subscription. Kagi is really an AI company that sells search as a sideline, and they’ve got a terrible AI slop news service too. But the search has a good reputation for now.
ButtcoinI went to the landing page, expecting garbage genAI images; it did not disappoint.
Goose was not valued
I do. For the same reason they are cramming LLMs into every other product:
They need to pretend to their investors that there is an enormous market hungry for more of this, so the investors will not demand their money back.
By turning more users of existing services, into “users of Gemini”; by turning more translate requests, more email messages, more search requests, into a “Gemini usage”; they can with a straight face claim more and ever more usage and demand, propped up by users who never agreed to any of this.
Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion (wheresyoured.at)
Edi Zitron has an exclusive report on OpenAI’s 2025 finances:
Google I/O 2026 And Its Consequences (fedi.vale.rocks)
If Google only takes and never gives, then sites cannot profit. What is the incentive to publish if the only outcome is feeding Google’s AI with no return? What sources will LLMs have to pull from if all the sources are defunct? How far will Google go folding adverts into their AI output?
From TFA:
I went to the landing page, expecting garbage genAI images; it did not disappoint.
European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools (theregister.com)
Data privacy and AI services have not been the greatest of bedfellows. Studies have shown that employees regularly leak company secrets via assistants, and on-device AI services are a focus of vendors amid concerns about exactly what is being sent to the cloud.