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Google is replacing search results with only the AI

Google is replacing search results with only the AI - awful.systems

replace the Web with slop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji8lhaV3XM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji8lhaV3XM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA] - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260520-google-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai [https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260520-google-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai] - podcast time: 9 min 04 sec

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RoidingOldMan May 20

Google thinks there’s more money in feeding you slop forever. With ads. And a subscription.

I don’t think that’s the long term goal. First, they slowly phase out the actual information sources, by making it so you aren’t linked to other websites. Now you’ve got a dependent group who rely in AI as a source of truth, and now they can modify “the truth” whenever you want because it’s the only source left. They could re-write human history and only people with books would know the difference.

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Jiral

Thing is, there are other search engines and some of them have growing and improving own search indexes. They might be worse than Google today but if Google goes totally bonkers, they will be a viable alternative. So people will have at least options. Some of those alternatives are also jumping onto the train of “kills switch for all AI”