LLM-written article about hating LLMs
I don't want my search engine to think for me
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#22I love AI summary and AI mode in Google search. I think it should be up to you (the human) to use your judgement to decide when to do further research by following the links and when to just rely on the AI summary. If I'm searching a TV show by name, I'm generally just looking for an overview, the IMDb rating and a review of that show. If AI summary gets that wrong, it's not the end of the world. I don't bother doing further research. There are a lot of such casual searches I do daily for which AI summary is good enough.
OTOH if I'm looking up an answer to a tax question, I don't just immediately trust the first answer from AI mode. I use it more as a knowledgeable friend who is not a tax attorney and so cannot be 100% trusted, but he/she is giving me useful pointers to go do deeper research and arrive at an answer.
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#24Kagi handles this perfectly, IMO. Defaults to normal search, but invokes an LLM if a `?` is appended to the query.
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#25I love AI summary and AI mode in Google search. I think it should be up to you (the human) to use your judgement to decide when to do further research by following the links and when to just rely on the AI summary. If I'm searching a TV show by name, I'm generally just looking for an overview, the IMDb rating and a review of that show. If AI summary gets that wrong, it's not the end of the world. I don't bother doing…
Same. AI still makes a lot of mistakes. Like today I was looking for new smoke detectors, and it clarified and then forgot Washington state code multiple times, and then ignored alternatives that were better fit for my problem until I asked pointed questions, and kept recommending solutions that I absolutely didn’t want to consider (or couldn’t because of WA code). If it wasn’t a conversation, it would have gone from a great to a disastrous experience.
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#26I like "search assist" in ddg.
companies deliberately obscure some information and it helps.
how much does "" cost
what is the phone number for ""
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#27why do people trust the AI overview over the Im feeling lucky button?
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#28I love AI summary and AI mode in Google search. I think it should be up to you (the human) to use your judgement to decide when to do further research by following the links and when to just rely on the AI summary. If I'm searching a TV show by name, I'm generally just looking for an overview, the IMDb rating and a review of that show. If AI summary gets that wrong, it's not the end of the world. I don't bother doing…
well the "AI" is smart because the search is "DUMB" if I google "how long do I fry an egg" I don't need an article with 600 words about the ladys grandmums special egg recipe, but thats how SEO got us here.
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#29I disagree strongly with the premise:
> When you search for something, you're usually not looking for a sentence. You're looking for evidence.
There is a long and storied history of Google offering more than just a list of links to go search for, since at least 2012, because a massive amount of people literally are looking for the single answer to a question, whether stated explicitly or implicit in the search term.
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#30I love AI summary and AI mode in Google search. I think it should be up to you (the human) to use your judgement to decide when to do further research by following the links and when to just rely on the AI summary. If I'm searching a TV show by name, I'm generally just looking for an overview, the IMDb rating and a review of that show. If AI summary gets that wrong, it's not the end of the world. I don't bother doing…
i just use chat for everything now. if i need a link, ill ask it to provide one.