Discussion
If someone can't find what they're looking for on a search engine because the most relevant results have been maliciously excluded in order to force people to use the genAI slop machine which does have access to the most relevant results, whose fault is it?
If it's not unethical to be using a search engine in the first place, I'd say the fault lies entirely in the group that hid the necessary search results behind the genAI slop machine in order to force people to go through it.
For basically every social issue, you can find people who at a surface level summary agree with you on what should be done, but upon closer inspection do not understand even the basic idea of why it's a problem in the first place and instead treat it as a sort of religion.
My stance is pretty simple: genAI does not change the morality of an action.
If someone is plagiarizing, whether they're doing it through an LLM or not does not matter.
If a bot is trying to perform a denial of service attack on my website, whether that bot is owned by a genAI company or not does not matter.
If someone is disruptively posting long-winded nonsense on a forum, whether that nonsense was generated by an LLM or by copy-pasting a message a hundred times or by hitting random keys on the keyboard does not matter.
If someone submits code changes they have not tested to an open source project, it doesn't matter whether those changes were made by hand or by any kind of automated tool.
@ben Google product managers have /a lot/ to answer for