Get the latest tech news
How AI summaries will break knowledge
Google has been indexing the collective wisdom of the open internet for the last two-and-a-half decades.
For the company to decide to dedicate two inches of depth in that first search results page was a dramatic move, clearly triggered by the inroads that ChatGPT has been making into the information gathering and query response business. Instant answers may be convenient and for some simple queries, may prove to be a boon, but reliance on these bland, packaged responses rarely does any justice to the original source material, drains the information of any character and distances fact from experienced reality. But, the term also applies to the characterless blandness of AI generated text, information without the rough edges of human thinking, appealingly polished facts presented authoritatively with limited context and no nuance at all.
Or read this on r/technology