[krackers]

>Google SERP results have been gamed by SEO slop for economically valuable search terms

So why not use AI to find the obvious spam and SEO? Sites like pinterest, "geeksforgeeks", stackoverflow clones were notorious for ranking highly on almost every technical search and you didn't even need AI to deal with those. Using AI to provide distilled summaries and making it harder to get the actual links is going to make things even worse for the user, because you have to cut through two layers of slop. And there's also not using the smartest model for the responses anyway.

[aiisahik]

Even if you get rid of "obvious spam and SEO", it won't change the fact that nobody wants to even read the "good" results. They just want the answer.

You can use AI to solve yesterday's problem or you can use AI to build the solution customers want today.

SEO was yesterday's problem.

Instant answer without the user having to worry about the sources is the solution the customers want.

[account42]

You don't need AI for that, just downrank all sites with ads. Of course it turns out its actually googles main business that's driving that.