You may have noticed in the last few days that date-based searches on
industrial-surveillance properties are malfunctioning. Especially if you
search for something recent (like "sort by date"). This is most easily
seen on the Youtube subsidiary: try sorting by date uploaded, see what
you get.
The reason is simple: failure of scalable censoring mechanisms (because
ML (AI for the masses) has to 'learn' - that's what L stands for) to
prevent dissemination of just uploaded undesirable content, they simply
decided that you can never search by that criteria. This new episode in
'search' adulteration is entertaining because it could not be made
invisible.
The end game is obvious - searching will return only approved content,
and the gap between the most recent searchable content and 'now' will
depend on the speed of content approval processing. Right now they seem
to be far behind.
Can they close the gap? It remains to be seen, as this looks like the
first real war between humans and AI: if humans win, the search engines
will start to look like Wayback machine or Wikipedia - very few curated
results, which will undoubtedly affect the bottom line. Maybe this is
acceptable, as other sources of data-siphoning income are steadily
growing. If the machines win, the Network will start to look far more
sterile and barren, but it will be in real time, and thus can
successfully project that sterility into hapless users, who interface
the world through handsets. Words you cannot hear and things you cannot
see you cannot think.
Both of these outcomes will provide lots of initiative for alternative
systems. I wouldn't be surprised if Russians or Chinese provide free
uncensored search services to US/EU audiences (like they already do for
the news). Now you know what Huawei vs. Cisco is all about.
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