[lzy]

This feels like the culmination of a long trend. Google shifting from indexing the web to replacing it. The idea of an “AI answer mode” burying actual sources is worrying, especially for niche or emerging topics where LLMs hallucinate confidently. I’d love to see metrics on how often users click through to original sources under the new interface. At some point, if Google becomes too self-referential, it risks losing the very web it was built on. Curious whether this opens the door for competitors that prioritise raw links and transparency over synthesised summaries.

[csa]

> if Google becomes too self-referential, it risks losing the very web it was built on

This ship has sailed.

Paywalls and wall-gardens are the mid-term future, imho.

Most of the useful internet spaces I interact with fall under these categories. It feels like a Balkanized version of the AOL/Compuserve days.