Google couldn’t get anyone to pay $20/month for its Gemini add-on, so it leveraged its considerable market power with Workspace to bundle the feature and raise everyone’s prices by $2/month.
In antitrust, this is called “tying,” and it’s illegal.
I can’t stress enough how much AI is ruining the internet. Pinterest is un-usable, Google image searches are overrun with misleading slop. It’s estimated that there are now more bots on the web than there are people. We have seen a wonderful thing destroyed in our lifetimes.
@KoboldRed I just want you to know the post that immediately followed this on my timeline was someone's animation of Max from Sam and Max blushing, and yeah that's pretty accurate, he's very graspable