>Google announced Tuesday that early next year it would turn off artificial intelligence tools in its popular software for K-12 students, unless school administrators explicitly choose to make such tools available.>Executives at the tech giant said they wanted to be responsive to educators and parents who have asked for more control in how children interact with A.I.>But there is a catch: Schools that choose to restrict A.I. entirely will also lose access to Google search.>A.I. features are now a standard part of Google’s commercially available search engine. “Search and A.I. are deeply integrated,” said Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google. If a school has banned A.I., he added, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.”Google search is shit and has been for many years but this is fucked up no matter how you cut it.
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There are viable alternatives to almost every Google product except YouTube and Street View.
>>110237951it's called monopoly and extortion, welcome 2 crapitalism, and u KNOW by noe that capitalism is le vased and epic win, wht r u a commie?
>>110237951>>110238320>>110238329The likelihood of this going down is low. I feel as though Google is playing with fire when it decides to involve itself politically with federally funded education. This isn't just something where a mistake could leave it with a hit to the balance sheet. On the other hand more regulation could prevent competition.
