Maybe? How niche are we talking? Are you saying the websites you need to find exist but you can’t find them via a search engine?

I honestly thought people didn’t have issues finding things via a search engine anymore. TIL people still struggle with it.

I never have trouble finding what I’m looking for online. Are you saying you do?

There is significant overlap between those two things. Depending on how old you are, you may not remember a time when people didn’t know how to search for information on the Internet; it was a skill people needed to learn. These days it’s pretty difficult to mess up finding what you want to find on the Internet, as the tools have been refined so much that it’s nearly idiot proof.

It’s much the same way with using an LLM. We’re at the stage where using an LLM is a skill many people don’t have, and it leads to incorrect outputs. I have no doubt that the same refinement will happen for LLMs as happened with search engines.

I can say with some certainty that the amount of junk mail I get is not significantly lower than in the past, but that’s not addressed to me, usually, it’s almost always “current resident”.

I doubt DMVs are going to move away from accepting mail, but they probably already have an option for your situation, like printing out something from a utility that equates to a bill with your name and address on it.

For proof or residence, it’s usually bill for a utility with your name and address on it. That is to say, you can’t show up with a birthday card sent to your address because anyone can send a birthday card with your name on it to any address, but the cable company, electric company, etc isn’t going to send a bill to your address with your name on it unless you’re on the hook paying that bill.

Is it outdated? Maybe a little. I think paper bills are still pretty normal, even if they’re paid online, but increasingly less so.

Yeah, it’s the distinction between “anonymous” and “private”.

It’s almost like capitalism is a problem.

The issue is what mechanism could be used to force Google to pay, but also prevents Google from saying “yeah, we just won’t provide any links to those sites at all”.

Are they going to force Google to index those sites against their will? If so, how? Even if they could, would you really want that? Will it be just as cool for Russia to force Google to index whatever it wants, too? Are they just going to take money from Google no matter what, and give it to the news sites, even if Google isn’t indexing them?

Sorry for the delayed response. I didn’t see a notification.

Google is pointing out that the news sites need google more than google needs the news sites.

This sort of thing happens every once in a while; some country’s news organizations think that google should have to pay them for the privilege of helping people find their sites. Google responds by blacklisting news sites from that country. The news sites suffer more than google does, and they reverse the decision.

Your cynicism isn’t properly calibrated.

If you look at the viewpoint of a CEO, you’ll see that they would be chomping at the bit to get rid of as many high paying technical or administrative roles as they can; it’s not like that extra money is going to flow down the chain.

Now, if there were a threat of LLMs replacing a management position, that would be a different story.

Edit: Apparently my reading comprehension is what needs calibrating. Turns out I agree! My bad.