Comment by nunez

My problem with the AI Overview feature is that it provides what you're looking for at the expense of everyone who provided the data to make that functionality possible.

Website owners losing traffic to the AI Overview feature is well-documented and has been discussed extensively here. This reality begets a few questions:

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What happens when it no longer becomes profitable for anyone to share knowledge online?

AI companies have scraped physical books to build their training sets. What happens when it no longer becomes profitable for anyone to share knowledge at all?

Are you okay with a handful of corporations owning the truth?

Are you okay with that same handful telling you _what the truth is?_

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I'm totally fine with Google telling me where to find truth. I am, personally, NOT okay with for-profit corporations like them telling me what the truth is. Every AI search I do is tacit acceptance of what they're doing, so I try not to use it.

All that said, you're definitely not in the minority outside of this site.

Heaps of people take the AI Overview result as the truth, case closed.

Given its inaccuracies (I used it the other day as a last result to locate these Korean cat treats, and AI Overview said that it was a "health food" for "wellness"), it's a massive problem that we haven't fully realized yet IMO.