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It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.
what makes it creepy?
First, its results are often simply wrong, so that's no good. Second, the more people use the AI summaries, the easier it'll be for the AI companies to subtly influence the results in their advantage. Think of advertising or propaganda.
This is already happening btw, and the reason Musk created Grokipedia. Grok (and even other llm's!) already use it as a "trusted source", which it is anything but.
Okay but its a search engine, they can literally just pick websites that align with a certain viewpoint and hide ones that don't, Its not really a new problem. If they just make grokpedia the first result then its not like not having the AI give you a summary changed anything.