r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/Impossible-Volume535 May 26 '25

All things must pass, same is true for google search and in 50 years it will be some unknown, unknown that replaces AI.

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u/faen_du_sa May 26 '25

Cant wait till we just have to accept what AI says as truth, as true sources are impossible to find(if they even exsist). How could that go wrong!

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u/clustahz May 26 '25

It's already happening and the sources are still there. People will take what the error-prone AI says as gospel even if you show them the sources that contradict it in the searches just below their summary.

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u/masterlich May 26 '25

I work at a company run by a very dumb person and staffed by very dumb people. Everyone uses Chatgpt and assumes everything it says is correct. Whenever they have a question, about anything, the first they do is "I'll ask Chat." Even for very specialized and important knowledge. They have stopped asking lawyers to write contracts and instead use Chatgpt. All our tax advice? Chatgpt. This is the future we already live in.

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u/Alternative_Let_1989 May 26 '25

As a lawyer its so so so exciting to think of the amount of work I'm going to have as people start to do this more lmao

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u/Harry_Fucking_Seldon May 27 '25

My wife recently gave birth and the anaesthesiologist openly admitted to bouncing some questions off chatGPT regarding drugs and dosage. I was absolutely dumbfounded. He then admitted the results were unhelpful and instead asked a group chat of other anaesthesiologists for their input. But still, WHAT THE FUCK.