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clktmrtoday at 6:11 AM3 repliesview on HN

This just shows how bad search engines have become. About 15 years ago you could type fully worded questions into Google and would be pointed to the exact sentence of a website that answers your question. I happened so slowly, we were all frogs in boiling water.

An the same will happen to AI. We will remember these days as the golden age for AI, where you weren't required to prompt an AI three times before it answers with a non-ad response.


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teekerttoday at 6:52 AM

The “nice” thing with AI is that the nudging can be so subtle you don’t even realize you’re being influenced for money.

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nfw2today at 8:16 AM

No you couldnt

joe_the_usertoday at 6:46 AM

You're right but I think AIs can be better than Google at it's height.

But whether it's search or AI-chat, what's annoying is efforts to have it replace that things that exist rather than serving as useful addition. I use ChatGPT X many times a day (or hour) but unless I ask for an AI's opinion, I don't want it.