Comment by clktmr
5 hours ago
This just shows how bad search engines have become. About 15 years ago you could type fully worded questions into Google and would be pointed to the exact sentence of a website that answers your question. I happened so slowly, we were all frogs in boiling water.
An the same will happen to AI. We will remember these days as the golden age for AI, where you weren't required to prompt an AI three times before it answers with a non-ad response.
The “nice” thing with AI is that the nudging can be so subtle you don’t even realize you’re being influenced for money.
What people think commercial AI is: a friend
What it actually is: a salesperson
It took the mass public a long time (15 years?) to realize search engines had shifted from the former to the latter, and that allowed Google to leverage that misplaced trust into huge profits.
Expect commercial AI to be the same, unless it's explicitly set up otherwise (read: Kagi assistant).
This reminds me of an old video about a guy that got invited to stay in the penthouse suites of casinos. In the video, he has a 'friend' who organises these trips for him (the friend works for the casinos).
This guy couldn't recognise the conflict of interest, and neither will 80%+ of AI users.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzbz0HDVKEs "Louis Theroux visits top gambler's Hilton hotel suite - Gambling in Las Vegas - BBC"
Google is the first company which developed, demonstrated and earned an award for inserting advertisements in AI generated text.
It even supports bidding for the ad space!
Source: https://research.google/blog/mechanism-design-for-large-lang...
No you couldnt
You're right but I think AIs can be better than Google at it's height.
But whether it's search or AI-chat, what's annoying is efforts to have it replace that things that exist rather than serving as useful addition. I use ChatGPT X many times a day (or hour) but unless I ask for an AI's opinion, I don't want it.