Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024

You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-used search engine go way back. UCLA scholar and "Algorithms of Oppression" author Safiya Noble joins Alex and Emily in a conversation about how Google has long been breaking our information ecosystem in the name of shareholders and ad sales. References: Blog post, May 14: Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you Blog post, May ...