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Google has been rolling out a thing where an AI result is the first thing that pops up, often taking up the whole screen lol. I’ve personally witnessed tons of people google something normally, then just go with whatever the AI says.
Makes me shake my head, but it’s not like they were very discerning with their sources before all this nonsense, either. Hopefully they don’t rely on it for any important medical advice down the road
Duckduckgo just did that to me! I was not expecting them to hitch a ride on the bandwagon. Makes me sad.
Your comment reminded me:
I was looking up when the VP debate is in the US, lamenting the olden days when a bolded date would simply appear at the top of the results.
I'm just clicking results and skimming for the date in the 1st paragraph, but nope. Every site is like fucking recipe pages now with this nonsense filler.
Anyways, third result down, DDG gives me this verbose MSN bot-written trash. It actually listed all the dates (of which there were four), that were considered for the debate, but not selected. The 5th date listed in the paragraph was the debate date.
It was a perfect example of completely useless information that a human would never consider including in an answer.
You've never asked my mum a question.
Yes! Search results used to just be the answer, and then each result further done would be slightly off. Now it's all a mess.
that Google AI is so shit. I just paraphrases the top result
Isn't paraphrasing/summarizing the top result a pretty good use case for LLMs? If I search "what temperature should I bake cupcakes at?" I really just want a simple answer, not dozens of links to life story style recipe blogs.
DDG didn't provide a summary, but Google did (and it was very long). I assumed the answer was 350F, but the summary suggested 325-375. Lower for flatter cupcakes, higher for more domed. Interesting.
This type of summary wouldn't be nearly as helpful for a technical programming question, but I doubt that describes the bulk of search queries.
I wasn't arguing about it's accuracy, I was attacking it's need to exist. fuck AI, I'm tired of hearing that acronym. can't wait for this shit to go away like every tech fad in the last decade
I'm sure it's already happening.
If lawyers have been caught using it for briefs, you can be certain there's people in the medical field doing the same.