<p>Folks think the “embrace” part of embrace, extend, extinguish applies only to the technology itself. It doesn’t. It also applies to the people prominent within it. Their legitimacy is essential for it to work. They’re told “come, sit at the big boys’ table with us” and “don’t listen to the naysayers, they’re just jealous of how popular we can make you.”</p><p>Last time I experienced this, the person in question who sold out got an OBE out of it. Which is rather fitting, when you think about it.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> DuckDuckGo uses Microsoft to destroy your privacy so I wasn&#39;t surprised.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> Artificial Intelligence... the cash cow of 2024.</p><p>There are some good and helpful uses for it.</p><p>The way it&#39;s being used now by practically every big tech company in town (including Mozilla)... is not one of those good uses.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> Working in education and having Microsoft and Adobe shoving AI into every possible nook and cranny they can has been depressing.</p>

@vaartis@pl.kotobank.ch that sounds like a woman bruh

lancia doriftu

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> it seems like a very short sighted feature from the search engines perspective. If no one has to go to the websites, then people will have no reason to create websites with the answers, and then the AI can’t get the answer.</p>

aw hell yeaaaaaaaaaa

@melanie@bv.umbrellix.org I know, it's on purpose