At the start of November, Chris Phillips, Google's vice president and general manager for education, said K-12 schools will soon have to accept the company's AI services...
Am I the only person who doesn’t understand these news stories at all?
Both Google’s search and its AI services are (as far as I can tell) just websites you can access through a web browser. What exactly were schools planning to do? Block school computers from accessing the domain gemini.google.com? How can Google prevent them from blocking that, but allowing other subdomains of google.com?!
Am I just completely failing to understand what is going on here, on a technical level?
Am I the only person who doesn’t understand these news stories at all?
Both Google’s search and its AI services are (as far as I can tell) just websites you can access through a web browser. What exactly were schools planning to do? Block school computers from accessing the domain gemini.google.com? How can Google prevent them from blocking that, but allowing other subdomains of google.com?!
Am I just completely failing to understand what is going on here, on a technical level?