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by NichoPaolucci 45 days ago
It's been difficult to do, but I have recently picked up the habit of scrolling directly past the AI overview. It's not what I wanted, so it's useless to me (regardless of whether or not it's correct). I wanted search results. Sometimes that's a Wikipedia page, documentation, video results. But, web search results.

If I wanted to read an AI response to a query, I would use that tool specifically - I consider them different tools entirely.

It's definitely taken some time to get into the habit - perhaps defaulting to Google as the search engine was my first mistake.

However, most people I've seen run a quick search DO in fact just read the AI response (often with a caveat of "this is just from AI but..." which I appreciate), because for a lot of things it IS good enough or exactly what they needed.