Well they don't get all the credit. Oh, wait, they control how much of the market? Ok, nevermind.
(the DOJ says 91%. Google somehow claims it's only 10%, to which I literally LOL'd).
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DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 6 months ago
Yeah it is, and it’s their fault that it is.
artifex@piefed.social 6 months ago
8uurg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That difference is so large, they must be quoting different numbers. Something like DOJ is looking at Advertising providers or search providers alone, while Google quotes a number for percentage of all websites visited or something.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 6 months ago
This is the dub of the issue. Markets need effective competition. Without it, you get fiefdoms and serfs, and shit products. Antitrust laws have been terrible for decades. Thanks broken political thinking. Slash up the tech monopolies and not just tech will improve.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
It’s not entirely their fault. The AI companies share a good portion of the blame too.
artifex@piefed.social 6 months ago
The AI companies are doing something different and possibly worse by stuffing all of the open sites full of AI slop and then re-training their models on said slop.
Wasn’t there some mythological figure that was doomed to eat its own excrement or something?
smh@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
A bunny?
dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Jon Stamos?
EvilBit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Human Centipede
negativenull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ouroboros