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The googol-sized problem at Google When I first started using the Internet, it was during the time where Google was starting to gain traction as the Search Engine. This was shocking to me, and it kept being that way, for Google’s results were just so much better. You could put Yahoo’s side-by-side and make a comparison and the result was just astounding. A couple of years ago, I decided to delete all the data that Google has on me. Or at least the one that it lets us delete through the Settings. This opened my eyes because the next time I performed a Google Search, the results were so unusable, I realised the “good” results were so because it simple had collected who I am and what I consider to be deemable of clicks. From this experience, I started using Duck Duck Go. Now, I only ever use Google when a DDG search does not give me the results I want. ...

By the end of last year, a week I was scrolling through the Internet as usual, and by the next one every single meme I received were ChatGPT answers. From people tricking it into think that it was the user, to answering 5 when asked “What is 2 + 2?”. A system that behaves this way cannot be said to be intelligent, surely. ChatGPT was released at the very end of 2022, and it quickly became the fastest growing application ever. There is some sense of concern about it mainly due to its philosophical and ethical implications, but also because of some of its eerie responses. So… what ought we do about it? ...