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highplainsdem

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4. Google wants people gullible enough to trust AI to stop at its AI features and not go to websites. This
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 09:29 AM
7 hrs ago

"crowdsourced" feature would snare the people dumb enough to think even their hallucinating AI Overview is offering advice that's too expert.

And if Google does continue with this and it gets a lot of traffic, imagine "crowdsourced" political issues and races and Google's ability to tell non-thinking users what their non-thinking peers feel is the truth. AI-enabled ignorance on steroids, manipulated by Google.

It would be similar to AI summaries of reviews, which might actually be representative summaries of people's reviews, but can probably be easily manipulated.

AI is empowering these companies' ability to control people's thoughts and actions. And the best way to limit their control is to avoid AI and encourage others to avoid it and not trust it.

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