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Google may not be showing an "AI" tagged answer, but they're using AI to automatically generate web pages with information collated from outside sources to keep you on Google instead of citing and directing you to the actual sources of the information they're using.
Here's an example. I'm on a laptop with a 1080p screen. I went to Google (which I basically never use, so it shouldn't be biased for or against me) and did a search for "best game of 2023". I got no actual results in the entire first screen. Instead, their AI or other machine learning algorithms collated information from other people and built a little chart for me right there on the search page and stuck some YouTube (also Google) links below that, so if you want to read an article you have to scroll down past all the Google generated fluff.
I performed the exact same search with DuckDuckGo, and here's what I got.
And that's not to mention all the "news" sites that have straight up fired their human writers and replaced them with AI whose sole job is to just generate word salads on the fly to keep people engaged and scrolling past ads, accuracy be damned.
It was kinda funny to me when everyone freaked out about misinformation and "death of search" when I see a lot of people already never leave Google and treat Instant Answers as the truth, like they do with Chat-GPT, despite being very innacurate and out of context a lot of times.
Never expect the bottom 80% of the bell curve to have self awareness. That's a bet you lose 9 times out of 10.
Funny how "self awareness" has two meanings here. It's the essence of what makes humans the smartest animals, but the problem you're referring to—lack of self reflection—is one of the most common problems amongst people today. Common sense ain't so common.