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Upper Echelon | The Death of The Internet

With Google rolling out new AI "overview" features from Gemini (that tell people to eat rocks, put glue in their food, and refer to some of the worlds deadliest mushrooms as the wrong "yummy" type...) The question has to be asked "is the internet dying"

When over 80% of search traffic funnels through one particular site (a site that used to be a beacon of information availability)... is a choice by that websites owner to compress everything down to the worst version of itself through machine learning the inflection point for the death of the Internet we once had. 

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