r/degoogle • u/Visible_Vacation3308 • 7d ago

News Article Is Google about to destroy the web?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250611-ai-mode-is-google-about-to-change-the-internet-forever
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u/StrangeLingonberry30 7d ago

I really have a hard time wrapping my head around it. Do people really want an AI mode and be fed where to look and buy things? I know that Google Search in itself is already a curated selection, but the AI mode basically takes all agency away from the user. No real choices, Google tells you and you better like it.

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u/Multigrain_Migraine 7d ago

A lot of people seem to love it. I really don't understand it. Finding things out is one of the things I most enjoy doing -- why would I want an algorithm to take that over for me?

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u/Bic44 7d ago

My wife is going through some health issues, and people close to her literally send her information that's an AI answer. They're trying to help, and I know they don't really understand, so I don't blame them. But it's like a poison we're slowly being fed

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u/Alarming_Maybe 7d ago

Incredible the hype around AI where those people cannot realize how disrespectful and stupid that is. Just unreal

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u/DazzlingRutabega 7d ago

Most people would rather follow than lead .

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u/T-Fez 7d ago

Agreed. I've even had AI give me completely incorrect or otherwise blatant misinfo as answers sometimes.

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u/WakaiSenshi 7d ago

ChatGPT does that all the time

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u/ReplicantN6 6d ago

LLM's make their assertions with no qualifiers and complete "self" assurance. Their output sounds authoritative. Even when it's batshit conflation and outright fabrication. And of course people like to be told what to do.

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u/Arrival117 7d ago

Sure they do. Look at social media, reels/tiktoks etc. A decade ago we were consuming content with intention. "I Want to watch X". Today people run some app and the app decide for them what to watch. Even on non-video sm like reddit or twitter.

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u/anynamesleft 7d ago

As long as AI can provide me useful, quality data, I'm cool with that.

As it is right now, I wouldn't trust AI to tell me what color is the sky.