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by gabelschlager 1286 days ago
What do you normally use a search engine for? Sure, if it's just specific, factual questions, AI generators might become good alternatives for that in the coming years. However, currently they hallucinate too strongly to be trustworthy.

But more often than not, that's not what I am searching for in the first place. I like to search for discussions, opinion pieces and other content on the internet and that's not something I see getting replaced by AI that quickly.
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bombcar 1286 days ago
I took it to mean that SEO crap is going to go plaid. And so search engines will mainly return ad-laden bullshit.

(New search engine idea: refuse to return any page that has advertising on it)

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dakiol 1286 days ago
> I like to search for discussions, opinion pieces and other content on the internet and that's not something I see getting replaced by AI that quickly.

I imagine that in some years we could see AI models being constantly trained with fresh content from the internet. Like the AI gets a new model every 5 minutes let's say; that would allow the AI answer questions Google and other search engines can answer.

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