That's the current state of the internet. In this world it wouldn't be "the Internet" full of propaganda, it would be the AI search engines the propaganda would get concentrated into. For "national security", don't you know. And it would be much easier for them for having an even smaller target. At least the current internet lets you cross-check one source of free propaganda against another today. (Although whether the truth is in any meaningful way "between" any set of them is another question.)
One possible scenario is that that is simply it for the internet as an information source; the search engine's AIs get captured and there becomes effectively no way to discover any of the content already on there.
But then again, people will react to that and do something. Kagi would grow and others too. The more interesting question is whether the governments that captured Google's AI would let them or if suddenly it would be discovered that copyright law doesn't permit search engines to do that. Would that be inconsistent with letting the Approved AIs access whatever they want and chew on it even harder? Yeah, and they wouldn't care.
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That's the current state of the internet. In this world it wouldn't be "the Internet" full of propaganda, it would be the AI search engines the propaganda would get concentrated into. For "national security", don't you know. And it would be much easier for them for having an even smaller target. At least the current internet lets you cross-check one source of free propaganda against another today. (Although whether the truth is in any meaningful way "between" any set of them is another question.)
One possible scenario is that that is simply it for the internet as an information source; the search engine's AIs get captured and there becomes effectively no way to discover any of the content already on there.
But then again, people will react to that and do something. Kagi would grow and others too. The more interesting question is whether the governments that captured Google's AI would let them or if suddenly it would be discovered that copyright law doesn't permit search engines to do that. Would that be inconsistent with letting the Approved AIs access whatever they want and chew on it even harder? Yeah, and they wouldn't care.