You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-used search engine go way back. UCLA scholar and "Algorithms of Oppression" author Safiya Noble joins Alex and Emily in a conversation about how Google has long been breaking our information ecosystem in the name of shareholders and ad sales.
References:
Blog post, May 14: Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you Blog post, May 30: AI Overviews: About last week
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Safiya Noble
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