AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
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Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.
  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    so long as AI can’t give references for every specific info it suggests, it cannot really replace manual search. Whenever I ask something to AI I need to fact check it via searching. If it is a topic I know almost nothing about, AI can facilitate the search via coming up with relevant keywords which are usually super helpful when searching. But it still cannot be a “searchless” info source.

  • NoraEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    God, all this worrying about Google and big search engines dying. It’s not the end of the world. Forums and community knowledge bases will just come back. You’ll go to a website and search a specific topic for results from humans instead of searching the whole web. You’ll just have a list of websites you go to that you need information from.

    There was an internet before search engines, you know.

    • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      The big search engines wouldn’t die anyway. Where do you think the AI is getting its results from? They just scrape and summarize the results so the human user doesnt see the the Google/Bing search page.

      • NoraEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        I was more referring to the endless number of websites that are hosting AI written articles which will muddy the water for Internet search engines.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      also like… there are other search engines, there are search engines you can host yourself…

      yacy is unfortunately sorta unmaintained but it still seems to work fine, if everyone started running that then we’d have a pretty usable decentralized search engine, which is extremely cool.