Maybe I don’t actually know what crawlers means in this context. I always thought crawlers were bots. Are there bots that aren’t crawlers? If so what are they?

So 20% of AI bot traffic are people?

But you are if the personal incentives in your situation are bad enough.

For an extreme example. You might not want to support the black market for human organs. You know how terrible it is as a system. But you’ll die if you don’t buy a black market organ. Is it reasonable to expect everyone to give their life for that ideal? No.

It is possible (common really) for individuals to make completely rational, sensible, even correct decisions, which ultimately contribute to a larger systemically catastrophic problem. It comes from improperly aligned incentives within the system. For examples, you can reference the prisoners dilemma.

This kind of sounds like it should be a !nottheonion@lemmy.world headline.

Yes! You’re right!
Selling access to the algo directly would be terrible for users. The SEO companies would all know exactly how to game the system, and ruin Google search completely. That would be soooo bad.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai seemed genuinely alarmed at the prospect of being forced to license Google’s search index and algorithm

This is almost exactly what Kagi suggested.
The hardest part of internet search is building the search Index. It’s massive. Practically a whole copy of the internet. Selling other provider access to Google’s search index means new businesses and new business models can be created. My only concern is the “and algorithm” part. That almost sounds like the current state of things. Where companies can run queries to google and receive standard results filtered by Google’s algorithm. Direct access to the index is needed without Google’s algorithm, so others can use their own algorithm. But maybe they meant and/or, so companies can choose to be a real “Google white label” or something more.

This would be interesting.
That would mean if you are training an AI model at home, you can copy any movie show or music you want, legally.

Obligatory mention of Kagi

And my code link for 3 people to try it for 3 months.

Now that’s a phone

Yah. I’m torn. On the one hand it’s kind of stupid and pointless to change the names of things. On the other hand If your changing the name, Gulf of America is probably the best option. The real point of doing it is to give the media something marketable to talk about instead of the more boringly important things going on. Which for the second time tonight, gets me dangerously close to a long rant about the shitty media we have.

I’m pretty close to a free speech absolutist. I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed so completely with TechDirt. This is not a TikTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. Corporations aren’t people. The government is fully within it’s rights to force a foreign state owned corp to sell or shutdown operations in the US.

Like you said this is another Corp vs Gov power play, and the public has largely been duped into supporting the Corpos again.

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That’s what I was thinking.
I’m pretty sure FUTO isn’t the only one either.
This doesn’t seem like new tech.

American social media platforms creating an environment where propaganda and misinformation flourish and refusing to take action against it has the same net effect as TikTok altering internal algorithm.

Targeted intent vs general apathy is a massive difference.

That could be. It sounds plausible. Do you have any studies?

What intelligence agency?
NCRI is a social media research group.

Lots of people think the US social media platforms do that. But none of the scientific studies have been able to show it.
The US companies are all purely driven by engagement, to maximize profit. The most effective source of that engagement, changes from person to person. But it’s most commonly what you might call “Rage Bait”.

Twiter’s recent bend toward the right, is primarily self selection of it’s users. As the left… left… the platform, the pool of available content shifted right; Causing even more to leave. Unless you have some paper I haven’t seen.

And Facebook selling data, is entirely different and unrelated. Nobody (no lawmakers) care about that.

Yah. Whatever happens, TikTok will NOT be leaving the US market.

Not quite. TikTok has been shown to tweak their algorithm against criticism of China. That’s the real reason for the concern. Their ability and willingness to purposefully manipulate people.