News Musk asserts AI will make search redundant in comment on Google Search share dipping below 90%

[abufrejoval]

Whether the the search results are inferenced on-demand or digested from inferenced material posted on web-sites, doesn't make much of a difference in therms of truthfulness or utility: search is doomed in both approaches and Google getting even more desperate in search of money is even worse than what they are today.

And that is unfortunately true for any dying giant: they do their maximum damage when their assets and IP land in hands of trolls, lawyers and criminals squeezing for the last buck.

What really worries me is AI attacking Wikipedia and flooding it with garbage to the point where it becomes unusable.

But in a way an Internet flooded with garbage can only result into a total information collaps, I guess we should call it the black hole of AI disinformation.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

What really worries me is AI attacking Wikipedia and flooding it with garbage to the point where it becomes unusable.

But in a way an Internet flooded with garbage can only result into a total information collapse, I guess we should call it the black hole of AI disinformation.

Wikipedia has always been biased, unless you wanted to know about something that was 100% non political, such as the breeding habits of a frog.

Such is what happens when people are more interested in pushing an agenda instead of focusing on truth and facts.

Welcome to the misinformation age.

 

[EzzyB]

Says the man who changed his AI to bring up "white genocide" in South Africa to people asking about Prize-Winning poodles and a baseball pitcher's salaries.

I've been saying it all along. He who controls the AI, controls the narrative. If you haven't figured out why all these trillions are being spent on it, there it is.

Absolutely none of these companies that are scrambling to build them are trustworthy. Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, etc. The biggest problem with AI is you will never be able to trust it.

Think about those Google AI summaries. Something like 2 billion Google searches a day. How many people see that AI summary and just call it done? That gives Google a power they absolutely will abuse. Grok, of course, has already done so and you can bet they learned a lesson and will do it much less crudely the next time Musk has a political point he wants to make.

 

[King_V]

Ehhh, to be fair, its given me some good info on fixing certain things in Linux. Like anything else, it needs refinement.

True, though I've been finding myself having to scroll down a bit more, scan for where it seems like more than just the topmost answer is AI, etc.

 

[blppt]

Absolutely none of these companies that are scrambling to build them are trustworthy. Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, etc. The biggest problem with AI is you will never be able to trust it

True. Grok even called its creator out (Musk) for trying to train it to return more right wing propaganda. Just wait till the people developing these things figure out how to rid their version of the AI from being aware of "focused" training.

 

[blppt]

Why oh why, must we still pretend this guy has any clue?

Because he has more money than any other single person on Earth. Simple.

 

[razor512]

I'm just sick and tired of trying to search for something on any search engine, browse through a dozen+ results looking for the answer or thing I'm looking for, only to spend several minutes on each page sorting through absolute junk, garbage, and monetization focused content only to find it doesn't have the content I'm looking for. Or I can just use any of the major GPT options and get that information in seconds, now with references to the original content. I'm tired of search engines. 30 years of them has been enough. It's time for something new and AI has replaced that.

That is because many of the more advanced LLMs, have gotten good at filtering out the SEO optimized nonsense designed to push randomly generated gibberish for a wide range of search terms.

Imagine if a search engine maker was able to use an AI to detect SEO abuse and remove those results entirely.

 

[abufrejoval]

Because he has more money than any other single person on Earth. Simple.

Which at best means he knows how to rake that in.

 

[blppt]

Which at best means he knows how to rake that in.

Right, I wasn't saying it means he's smart or correct, just that when you've made that much money, people pay attention.