The British entrepreneur says search results are plagued with ‘clickbait’

Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

  • ???English
    38•1 year ago

    I’ve been saying this for years, but no one listens to a random dev. Now I can finally back it up with some authority.

    • @sir_reginaldEnglish
      22•1 year ago

      I value more the opinion of a worker in the field than that of a shareholder talking about their competition.