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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 11, the Google Gemini fiasco

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Today I want to talk to you about the Google Gemini fiasco, the latest bad product launch by Google.

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  • Today I want to talk to you about the Google Gemini fiasco.
  • Gemini, formally know as Baird, is their answer to ChatGPT.
  • You may be unaware of this, but internet search is moving to a new model, with AI chatbots replacing the old "ten blue links" model of the past.
  • I have spoken about this before, when in a previous episode I explained how traditional web search is based on ten blue links and how a move to chatbot based search will devastate content creators.
  • Given that search is still the main funnel for Google to drive their advertising revenue, they cannot afford to lose ground to OpenAI and other AI-driven rivals.
  • So, Gemini was meant to be their catch-up product.
  • There is a lot on controversy online since the launch however, due to Gemini giving back wildly inaccurate information, and images of historic figures that have been raced swapped.
  • During the week of the Gemini on X, my feed was full of people attempting to get Gemini to render an image of a white person, and the AI almost had to be tricked into doing so.
  • Sadly, Google has maintained it's ongoing habit of terrible product launches, followed by cancelling those products.
  • Will Gemini be the next entry on the Killed By Google website?
  • The bigger issue is what it says about the culture inside Google, that allowed a product with such heavy political bias to go through QA and all the way to a high-profile launch.
  • Honestly, it's embarrassing.
  • The wider trend however is more concerning: do you really want your internet search results to be filtered by such a biased AI model?
  • Imagine if Google Gemini becomes your main interface for querying the internet? That might happen, and the degree of filtering is very worrying.
  • Now you understand my motivation for building greppr.org
  • I'm all-in on using AI for automation, but outright reject using it for censorship.
  • Sadly, all technology has two edges and AI is no different.
  • What I am working on this week:
    • Designing an internet search indexer for the Alpha Framework.
    • Media I am enjoying this week:
      • I finally finished Shift by Hugh Howey

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