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Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 44 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Parents and teachers are taking the wrong approach here. The proper response is "Your terms are acceptable".

Google no longer has a monopoly on search. They don't even have a particularly good search engine anymore. Even if the administrators want to keep some of the AI tools, they should get rid of Google search anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Why not both move away from Google, and call them out for extorsion?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    What extortion?

    "Our urine soup is bundled with our turd sandwich. If you won't eat our turd sandwich, we won't let you have our urine soup."

    The way they arranged their ultimatum, one would expect "Google Search" to be a desirable product, rather than a steaming bowl of piss.

    I think people are getting confused because the format of the ultimatum looks a lot like extortion, when it's actually just clever marketing for some inferior products: "This urine soup must be good if they expect us to choke down a turd sandwich just to try it."

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