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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn awful prospect for Google searches.
I heard on The Newshour tonight that Google is going to shift to AI driven search results. Instead of showing you a list of web sites that might have answers to your search, they will have AI sythesize the answers. I WILL IMMEDIATELY LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE SEARCH ENGINES. I'm not sure I can articulate why this sounds so awful to me. Does it sound awful to you? Can you say why?
RandySF
(69,401 posts)LAS14
(14,413 posts)... I imagine Bing is going to follow suit. Or even jump the gun.
LeftInTX
(29,629 posts)Response to LeftInTX (Reply #3)
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RockRaven
(16,060 posts)They shifted from prioritizing the best search results to prioritizing the most searches (because revenue must grow and grow) so they purposely enshittified their search to make people search multiple variations of terms to find what they're looking for.
Voila! More searches, which means more sponsored results shown, more revenue.
ProfessorGAC
(69,352 posts)In at least 2, the AI basically regurgitated Wikipedia.
Scroll down half a page, click on Wiki and the answer is about the same.
Not verbatim, but pretty darned similar.
I use Google & DDG, and I only see it on Google.
Wicked Blue
(6,514 posts)I wouldn't use "googoo" if they paid me.
choie
(4,394 posts)it already seems to be happening.
Groundhawg
(833 posts)LAS14
(14,413 posts)I'm lost in outdated info on the web for changing my default browser. Will have to get my daughter to do this when I see her next.
usonian
(13,141 posts)Google Is About to Change the Whole Internet -- Again
Ms. Toad
(35,304 posts)I allowed it just to see what it would produce. I can't recall any time the AI search has gotten it right. (It's labeled, but the label is less obvious that I would like - and every once in a while I start to quote it and then realize it's AI so I'd better double check. In every instance I've checked it, it was wrong.)
I just skip the AI summary and go right to the regular search below it.
justaprogressive
(2,353 posts)dalton99a
(83,754 posts)Big Blue Marble
(5,433 posts)I have used it for years. It is great while offering more privacy.
dalton99a
(83,754 posts)Uncle Joe
(59,913 posts)a means of control over the peoples' deliberations as the one way mass communication technology of T.V. has faded to two way mass communication of the Internet.
That development spooks oligarchs and corporate supremacists that don't trust the 1st Amendment if actual speech can take precedence over monetary power.
The 1st Amendment has never been stronger and that scares the urine out of them.
Thanks for the thread LAS.
WhiskeyGrinder
(23,618 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(4,321 posts)I think they went out of business.
Jacson6
(660 posts)Next year your MS windows desktop/laptop computer will have AI automatically installed by Microsoft and it will keep tabs on you and take constant screen shots of your desktop to analyze what you are doing.
Privacy & Internet Security are a myth in the 21st Century.