[add-sub-mul-div]

Yes, Google search was good until they made it bad for profit and people still used it anyway because they'd lost the ability to do without it. We're in the era of being trained to rely on AI in the same way. If you think it will remain good, you haven't paid attention to the last ten years.

[thfuran]

I don’t even think it’s good now. Sure, they’ll often give you a link. But sometimes they’ll just insist there definitely is a page that they’re pulling their made up info from but fail to provide a link, outright fabricate a link, or provide a reference that simply isn’t consistent with the purported summary. I’m sure the inevitable product placement won’t help matters.

[atlasunshrugged]

This is basically the idea of enshittification popularized by Cory Doctorow right?

[new_account_100]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...