> at work

A lot of performance issues are down to MDM software.

That won’t help a PM hit their bonus

30% open rate, huge success! Yeah because I keep clicking on it accidentally!!

> The UK did this already and ML is out of control there: criminals just don't care.

From 18th May:

“A new £30m High Street organised crime unit has been announced by the government after the BBC's year-long investigative reporting into illegal mini-marts, vape shops and barbers.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pzwx449no

Of course, remains to be seen what, if any, impact this ends up having.

> It is odd that they cite customer demand just after people leave Google for DuckDuckGo due to AI enshittification.

You’ll probably find this is extremely limited to whatever circle you find yourself in

The other thing people do is associate google only with their consumer facing products. Their cloud business is growing like crazy and they have the best Ai chips for running efficiently/economically at scale (TPUs, vertical integration). There's a reason they run everyone's models better than they can themselves on nvidia cards

As long as the default on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari is Google, I doubt any of this "retaliatory flight" registers as even a blip.

Being discoverable is one thing, having your content stolen wholesale is another

Most of the economy is not journalists or people who sell "content" online. In most cases I can think of - retailer, restaurant, hotel, plumber, any local small business, they want their content ingested. That means the AI chatbot knows about them and they can be in answers potentially.

And having your content rendered inaccessible to humans by a DDoS attack from overly aggressive webcrawlers that ignore robots.txt is yet another.

Just look at Corning’s lifetime chart

I definitely see it going that way from a marketing perspective if you want what you send/produce to be machine readable and actually used in intermediated surfaces like email and web search.

> Are there any VCs looking to give away a few billion dollars to disrupt the ossified, wasteful, poor customer experience taxi app market?

Waymo are rolling out, slowly. No one'll be in a real position to compete against them.

What’s fun is all that “intervening” infrastructure they’ve introduced also doubles up as a big surveillance network.

how else could it work?

SMS will go exactly the same direction as push as far as being intermediated.