@evacide why think when you can… “not think” I guess is the desired state?

Great thread on this whole thing, from an actual expert:

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116604732852620824

@avuko @evacide that's a false dichotomy. Filtering lists of results isn't typically the goal of your search query, reading them to learn something is.

Changing the list of results with a summary of said results is merely reaching that information differently.

If the AI results become more factual over time and/or people learn to judge sources listed in the AI result (as they must now) it might become just more efficient.

Lots of ifs and buts, I'm aware, I just hope won't suck. 🤞

@dynom @evacide

This shift means that “searching the web” will increasingly be performed by AI agents rather than humans. Instead, people will focus more on acting on the information those agents provide instead of manually clicking links. [My emphasis].

That they frame it as “clicking links” instead of processing information to create your own understanding and worldview, is a very smart and carefully constructed rhetorical trick.

Why spend your energy “clicking links”, which sounds like a useless and boring task, instead of working with the information they want to give you, within a context they control, exposed only to their ads and storylines, that you are then promised you can “act on”.

Like you have any grasp left on what you are acting on…

This whole thing is a worse kind of thought-control than whatever Orwell, Bradbury and Huxley ever came up with. Combined.