"Are the curtains being drawn on web browsing as we've known it for 30+ years?" asks Richard ManManus. It's a good question. Chrome is not alone in mixing AI with browsing - Microsoft's Edge and Mozilla's Firefox have already traveled down that road. But there are concerns that AI-enabled browsing puts a layer between the reader and the source content. This is a real concern not only for commercial publishers (who are asking professors to tell students to disable the AI function) but even people like me who share non-commercially; from my perspective, the big problem with social media algorithms wasn't just that they promoted clickbait and advertising (though they did) but also that even people who followed me were no longer seeing what I wrote. So what's the alternative? Stand-alone feed readers?
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