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419: Oh...Canada.
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419: Oh...Canada.

Canada is the latest country to decide that somebody should be on the hook for the news industry’s financial issues, and it might as well be Google. Meanwhile, Google urges its AI models to both learn more and forget more.

Material · Andy Ihnatko and Florence Ion

July 6, 20231h 11m

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Canada is the latest country to decide that somebody should be on the hook for the news industry’s financial issues, and it might as well be Google. And, just like the offside rule in professional hockey, this is a Canadian thing that Andy doesn’t really understand. Meanwhile, Google urges its AI models to both learn more and forget more. Isn’t this the sort of contradiction that made HAL-9000 go psychotic?

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