[cblconfederate]

I really hope Google gets some competition in their NN endeavors because they are creating an economy that sucks in free information and eventually spews out buying recommendations. In the past they would compensate websites for providing the precious raw material for their results with advertising. With DL models websites don't need to get anything back. This will lead to stale information or pretty much end the web

[azinman2]

You’re being downvoted but it’s actually an interesting issue. Many companies (yelp) already have suffered from quick results… at a certain point Google will have a hive mind but little reason to have you go any further. This is good as a user (hypothetically), but does not contribute back at all to the producers of such information who may have additional value to unlock.

Meanwhile the Reddit’s and whatnots can’t afford to not have Google index them, so this is just the price of admission. I wonder if they need an expansion to do not crawl that lets you specify how the data could be used?

[shadowgovt]

Are there other reasons than financial compensation that someone would put facts on a web page?

[erikerikson]

They believe it increases the probability of a world outcome the publisher prefers (e.g. activism, advancement of humanity, ...).

[davedx]

Do you think Wikipedia is driven by financial compensation?