Post #749504
2026-03-23 15:00 UTC
Replies (40)
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@redshiftdrift@universeodon.com 2026-03-24 14:17
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social The article ends with "The question isn’t how to stop this from happening..." Yes it is! and to stop this from happening just stop using Google.
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@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 15:02
More. But definitely go read the full article.
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@Chrisblue@journa.host 2026-03-23 15:40
@SteveRudolfi NB @MilitaryLaw
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@purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay 2026-03-23 16:22
@SteveRudolfi what the actual fuck!
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@dave@europhiles.uk 2026-03-24 07:01
@SteveRudolfi I wholly disagree with the conclusion at the end of this article. This is something that should be vigorously avoided.
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 08:00
@SteveRudolfi the direction of travel was obvious months ago https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115276033662934609
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@netzhexe@chaos.social 2026-03-24 09:22
@SteveRudolfi I am choosing to look on the bright side of this: it’s an excellent reason to stop using Google as a search engine.
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@kerfuffle@mastodon.online 2026-03-24 09:22
@SteveRudolfi Sounds like they want to compete with https://web.archive.org but instead of archiving actual content, they want to rewrite history. Sounds like a bad idea.
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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-03-24 09:57
@SteveRudolfi #TranslatedFromTheRepublican "Google takes #PrinceBonesaw money and converts a search engine into "bait & switch" AI Slopware. Plans for fossil fuel fascist state surveillance platforms proceed." The fossil fuel industry is going to keep its captive consumers one way or another, no matter what. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7 https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligencer-trump-mbs-meeting-brings-ai-money-2025-11-20/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-874567 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/google-backs-saudi-ai-fund-as-trump-mbs-tout-new-investments
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@cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com 2026-03-24 10:33
@SteveRudolfi "The question isn’t how to stop this from happening, it’s how to make sure your parts are the ones AI wants to work with." and this is where I was reminded I was reading from Forbes, spineless plutocrats' sycophants that they are.
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@crecente@games.ngo 2026-03-24 10:58
@SteveRudolfi FYI, this article misstates how a #patent works : "This isn’t a feature announcement, it’s a patent, meaning Google has legally protected the ability to do this." A patent holder may arguably prohibit others from using that patent. 🚫 However, a patent holder must still follow any laws and regulations when using that patent. A patent is not permission to break laws / contracts / etc.
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@Beldarak@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-24 11:34
@SteveRudolfi What the actual fuck?! How is this even legal?
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@ivolimmen@toot.community 2026-03-24 11:36
@SteveRudolfi so... basically a patented version of a scam site???
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@ulrich@social.server17.net 2026-03-24 11:47
@SteveRudolfi That is wrong for so many different reasons that you could fill an entire conference with talks on the subject. Even then, there would surely still be more to say.
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@stonedonkey@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 11:50
@SteveRudolfi I'm good with starting over, when the web was just research, people who were passionate about a topic and maybe maybe a few webrings. No ads, no single search engine, no dark patterns, just people who loved building for others and wanted to make the place better.
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@tansy@wandering.shop 2026-03-24 11:52
@SteveRudolfi how is anyone supposed to be a journalist if google is going to rewrite articles to make them more 'palatable' for readers? :blob_dizzy_face:
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@shelldozer@oldbytes.space 2026-03-24 11:56
@SteveRudolfi 'The leap from "the link can appear in a sponsored content item" to "you could be billed for clicks to a page you didn’t create" seems like a radical shift in the way the internet works'
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 11:56
@SteveRudolfi @pluralistic Google puts on its Crocodile Dundee hat and drawls "THAT's not #enshittification. THIS is enshittification!”
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@gergely@gotosocial.polonkai.eu 2026-03-24 11:57
@SteveRudolfi The article mentions WebMCP which, to my understanding, will play a significant role in this AI-generated crap. I wonder if there are people out there who have already exploited it so the AI sees something completely different than what’s on the actual page…
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@Firlefanz@writing.exchange 2026-03-24 11:59
@SteveRudolfi Well, eff Google, a hundred times. I hope there will be plug-ins that block this nonsense. I hope WordPress will block this nonsense. I'm running my Website to express myself, not to create parts for some some AI slop. I will never adapt it to fit Google's slop, either. Websites are by humans for humans. Google has gone completely off the rails, they are aiding a fascist government, and want to alter history and facts in real time. Utterly disgusting!
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@matt@oslo.town 2026-03-24 12:01
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social @leneeeide@oslo.town I think that was the whole premise of Arc browser for iOS: "Browse for Me would use AI to read webpages related to the user's query to create a new webpage containing quotes, summaries, and embedded videos regarding the query." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(web_browser)#:~:text=The%20announcement%20also,regarding%20the%20query.
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@PickleGlitch@eattherich.club 2026-03-24 12:04
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social I'm sure this will be completely "voluntary." Of course, if you don't "volunteer", your website will probably be de-listed entirely. They will still probably scrape its contents tho. Personally, I could give a shit if my site shows up in a Google search. I'm not selling anything, so that's easy for me to say.
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@Tristan@catnest.net 2026-03-24 12:13
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social How does this work with DNS and HTTPS? Will the URL just show "catnest.net.FAKESLOP.Google.com"?
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@winterberging@mstdn.social 2026-03-24 12:15
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social boycott google!
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@sonjdol@ohai.social 2026-03-24 12:15
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social this should be prohibited
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@pakowitsch@ruhr.social 2026-03-24 12:16
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social WTF?!
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@AlsoPaisleyCat@tenforward.social 2026-03-24 12:20
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social This is potentially disastrous for government and other institutions who absolutely require high level vetting and sign off on their public facing communications. In some cases, formats are mandated for accessibility by law or even constitutional obligations. If Google’s AI doesn’t like what it sees, institutions can have no confidence that what is delivered by governments to their populations has fidelity to legal requirements and respects constitutional rights.
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@painting_squirrel@muenchen.social 2026-03-24 12:21
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social Hi, patent attorney here, giving a sort of PSA I often drop when I stumble upon articles like this one. The way the system works, a very significant number of patents are not granted for things that any given company actually has, but rather for things that a company thinks that it might want to have in the future, and sometimes it's even just about having a bigger pile of patents to take into negotiations without any intentions of ever actually using the patented things.
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@wesdym@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 12:24
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social The point of this seems to be to prevent YOU from doing it, without paying them. If you or your provider get the bright idea to do anything like this, you'd have to pay them some kind of licensing fee. Or, you can NOT pay them, and instead have a boring 404 page like everyone else who doesn't want to pay them. It's a form of enshittification, to be sure. But mostly just a crass money grab.
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@will@www.librepunk.club 2026-03-24 12:26
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social This is horrifying, but it reinforces a truth we all already knew: The "Internet" as it exists today, is not a place for people like us anymore. It is a sad, fetid corpse lying in a gutter. Frankly I don't give a shit if Google shows my page. For me, Google was a write-off about 5 years ago. The people still using Google are not my community (note, I pick my words very carefully here. Visitors to my websites are not an "audience", they are a "community"). 1/?
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@dymaxion@infosec.exchange 2026-03-24 12:33
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social Well, I hope they enjoy direct and indirect liability for all losses that either the consumer or the site can claim as a result of hallucinations
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@UschiAachen@nrw.social 2026-03-24 12:34
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social So we switch back to #print! No problem, some of the still living designers know how to handle... #AI will never be able to mix up printed matters. ;-)
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@quoidian@mastodon.online 2026-03-24 12:35
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social The content replaced will be what best pleases their sponsors
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@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl 2026-03-24 12:36
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social oh no, they're going to make google ads even worse why would anyone care, just don't click on them
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@MonkeyPanic@nerdculture.de 2026-03-24 12:42
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social isn't that impersonation?
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@alterelefant@mastodontech.de 2026-03-24 12:46
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social I expect a lot of defamation lawsuits.
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@Stege@rollenspiel.social 2026-03-24 12:58
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social lol.
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@Mimesatwork@wandering.shop 2026-03-24 13:39
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social So. Now the question is can you hide your website from Google to prevent it from giving visitors gobbledygook when they look for it?
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@mdm@mcnamarii.town 2026-03-24 13:47
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social AMP on steroids Thanks, I hate it
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@j5v@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 14:25
@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social with ads.