Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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    5 months ago

    Why does search need to be AI? I’ve had no problems finding any information I wanted under the former process.

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        5 months ago

        Can I super-mega-ultra upvote this?

        It’s the same playbook as ever. Doubt can only be explained by ignorance, failure can only be explained by under-committing,

        The only way to have a “valid” opinion is to have already bought-in and be actively selling other people on it. It’s the same mentality as a cult or a pyramid scheme.

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      5 months ago

      I think it’s been a long time since digital companies tried to solve actual problems.

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      5 months ago

      It’s become more efficient to get basic info on virtually any topic by just asking an LLM like ChatGPT and that could be a serious threat to Google Search. People might form the habit of asking AIs for everything and then go to Google Search only when they want to dig deeper / find relevant articles etc. So I assume they added their own AI right into Search in an effort to continue being the first (and perhaps only) place one goes to for information.