>>ColinW+(OP)
I'm of the opinion that Google is no longer "Organizing the world's information" but "Stealing the world's information". Their last keynote proved that with all of the AI products. Regardless of this proposal (which is awful) they are a data vampire using all your info for themselves without permission or compensation.
>>lances+tA
Y'all ought to read Rainbow's End, where a Google-alike is trying to OCR all written information to make it accessible online… while shredding the originals in the process. That book was prescient on so many levels.
>>runiq+7a1
> while shredding the originals in the process
In-universe reason for that made no sense whatsoever and was nonsense. It was not even an evil organization (this would make sense) but OCR method as described was absurd and would not work.