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Claude can now search the web

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Re: Claude can now search the web

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What is there to even search anymore? Almost everything is gated, and whatever remains public is connected a faucet that pumps out AI slop at an ever increasing rate.

The internet consumed itself. Telling someone to, "Just Google it," is now terrible general advice.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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if everyone is using LLMs to solve problems, in a few years, won't LLMs run out of content to mine? In short, how can the general dumbing down of LLMs and degradation of content used to solve problems be avoided over the long term? For questions about events and problems that arose after 2025, where would LLMs get information to solve those? and who would be asking those at a forum LLMs can access going forward? Is t…

Most interesting data will be collected in chat rooms and apps. There are over a billion LLM users, they act as human-in-the-loop enhancig the LLM, sometimes testing ideas even in reality. Wondering what providers are doing with the chat logs.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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It is paramount to a functioning society to have zero tolerance for nazis.

Thank you for saying this. I recently heard that story "if you let one Nazi in your bar, pretty soon you have a Nazi bar"

Also, if you call everyone a nazi, all you have is nazi bars. I was called a nazi last week for driving a Tesla, and I have Jewish ancestry. The word hardly makes any sense.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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Grok's DeepSearch and DeeperSearch are also pretty good, and you can look at their stream of thought to see how it reaches its results. Not sure how OpenAIs version works, but grok's approach is to do multiple rounds of searches, each round more specific and informed by previous results

My disgust and hatred for Elon Musk prevents me from giving Grok a fair chance. I realize this is my psychological problem. I own it, but as far as I can tell, I'm not missing much.

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Re: Claude can now search the web

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I don't think it should. If a user asks the AI to read the web for them, it should read the web for them. This isn't a vacuum charged with crawling the web, it's an adhoc GET request.

>You can now use Claude to search the internet to provide more up-to-date and relevant responses. It's a search engine. You 'ask it to read the web' just like you asked Google to, except Google used to actually give the website traffic. I appreciate the concept of an AI User-agent, but without a business model that pays for the content creation, this is just going to lead to the death of anonymously accessible conten…

You can't expect the benefits of public web without bearing the costs. Just put your stuff under a auth wall (can even be free) and no one will crawl it.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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It may not be very long before the big majority of web searches are via AI. If that happens, blocking AI will mean blocking most people too. You’d already be blocking me as I’d guess I now search via AI >90% of the time between perplexity, chatgpt, deep research, and google search AI.

>It may not be very long before the big majority of web searches are via AI. If that happens, blocking AI will mean blocking most people too. If that happens a big majority of websites will go bankrupt and won't exist anymore to be searched. Problem solved!

big doubt on that and maybe that's a good thing? Let's be honest, right now most of the web is dominated by low effort spam. Taking money away from view farming would dramatically increase the web quality of the web. Suddently that guy who's really into "key gardening" doing research and publishing detailed results on his website actually has viewers — isn't this good? Especially since website hosting is close to being free these days.
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