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Is it really that much different from the types of people who would believe the first (often bias-confirming) answer they found on Google?

Dead Internet theory is becoming more and more plausible by the day.

My 10 yr old figured it out when googles AI couldn't tell the difference between spiderman: miles Morales and spiderman 2. "Why is it trying to give me trophies for the old game?"

Doesn't ChatGPT also use google?

I tested this whole concept with Mistral AI. It searches the web, aggregates its findings and provides an answer highlighting potential perspectives / different answers with each one providing a link to the source URL. As much as I hate AI, it does work great that way (since the LLM doesn't have to pull stuff out of its butt).

I'm one of those. I would prefer to google for results, but current day google is perfectly useless even for very obvious searches...

I like to say google and use DDG, I want them to lose their trademark

I like using Google as a term for search to annoy Google.

So I'll tell someone to use DDG to Google it

Or Google something on youtube

Or Google something on Facebook

Yet another tragedy of our time is watching Google ruin the internet with its SEO bullshit and then replace it with AI

I don't think the answer is switching to another service that does not respect your privacy. I know it's a bit of a meme atm but I've switched to kagi a few months back and haven't looked back.

Oh shit nice I had no idea this subdomain exists, guess I'll finally be rid of those stupid ai answers in private windows as well!

Well, they're the same thing now on most browsers.

AOL keywords are back!

I just say look it up

"the answer's on the information superhighway!"

Soon with some tweaking the AI answers will serve the shitified shit the SEO driven algorithms shat.

Like: Use Elmer’s TM ©️ glue on your Tombstone Pizza from Kroger to keep your toppings sticky!

So you’ll get ads baked into your wrong answer.

There is at least some merit to the technology for this use-case too though (doesn't even remotely justify the energy costs though, of course). It's one of the few things LLMs are genuinely good at since it merely requires text ingestion and to regurgitate what was ingested on some way. As long as it's paired with proper sources (no clue how ChatGPT does it) for all claimed findings it really can be better. Obviously it's also "better" since it circumvents all the utterly ridiculous trash we usually have to deal with (pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, registration walls, bad search algorithms etc.) which shouldn't be used as argument.

Paired with the "Thinking" or "Reflection" feature that simulates some basic thinking process (it even enables these things to count the corrrect amount of 'b' in 'blueberry', wow!) the results are genuinely good (Disclaimer, I only ever tested that with the free tier of Mistral AI - if you really want to use this stuff at least go to them, they're bound to EU law). I really get why it becomes so popular, and I'd lie if I said I'd never use it myself. Would still prefer if we weren't going down this cyberpunk timeline though…

Edit: I'm strictly speaking about using it as a search engine when it does look up websites FOR you and reads through them, not when it makes shit up itself. Only then the stuff I said applies!