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No RAM for You
If you cannot afford food, then you should stop eating.
No bread? Eat cakes, instead.
If you cannot pay rent, set up a tent outside.
If you cannot pay for a Windows licence, then stop using computers.
If you don't want slop, don't use search either [1-3]. █
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Futurism ☛ Google Announces It's Shutting Off Search Engine Access for Schools That Ban AI
But it’s a fraught relationship that’s now seriously being tested as teachers start to suspect that the AI use is wreaking havoc on the impressionable minds of their students. The tech has been shown to erode young people’s critical thinking skills, cause their testing skills to plummet, and — at the extreme end — drive them into isolation and AI psychosis.
Google is now putting on brass knuckles to keep its AI in schools, saying that it’ll be unwilling to support schools that move to block AI entirely. As the New York Times reports, the tech giant is revoking access to Google Search, the most important gateway to information on the open web, for any schools looking to restrict AI.
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Los Angeles Times ☛ Google will cut off search access for students at schools that reject AI tools
The Mountain View, Calif., company has been facing pushback from educators, child development experts and parents over the use of its technology in schools, with the backlash heating up since it announced in August that it had turned on its Gemini chatbot for many K-12 students who use Google Classroom.
On Tuesday, the company said that practice would no longer be the default option for school administrators and that opting out of AI tools would also mean losing access to Google search.
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New Republic ☛ Google Tries to Blackmail Schools Into Using Its AI Tools
Many schools across the country have already invested in Google’s technologies, purchasing low-cost Google Chromebooks to assist educational instruction. Beyond that, Google’s search algorithm has led the industry for the last two decades, besting its competitors to the point that its mere name has become synonymous with research.
Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, argued in a statement on X that Google had used its “search monopoly to coerce schools” into adopting AI tools. She noted Google has been found legally liable multiple times for antitrust law violations.
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