You're blaming the victim for being an idiot instead of the root cause.

The entire world is covered in a layer of mis- and disinformation to separate people from their money.
That's the problem.

Ok? And that was a problem too.

I will agree degredation happened, but Google was way more reliable before AI started "helping". Now it makes up its own write-up about whatever you search for and gives you little of actual useful info.

I think the closest thing we have to a “right tool” is your brain. If you’re looking for a product your first thought shouldn’t be “let me ask Chat GPT” it should be something like“let me ask someone who sells or is familiar with this product.”

Tools like search engines can be useful for finding the right people to talk to.

I think people like interacting with a computers instead of people because it’s “more convenient.” Many computer systems smooth over the friction that we experience in the real world.

One of the common topics for internet comics these days seems to be anxiety people have about making phone calls, and I think search engines and chat bots present a similar dynamic.

Yes, maybe people don’t experience as much anxiety when using a chatbot or interactive voice recording, but ultimately those tools won’t always work and people will eventually need to work through their anxiety to accomplish what they want which involves interacting with other humans (or choose not to engage with people and become bitter and isolated.)

That's not remotely close to what I said. I said the companies have a responsibility to inform the idiot that it's not always accurate. They'll still be idiots, but they'll be made aware not to trust the LLM's response by default. They might complain about this map, but hopefully after they're told the LLM was wrong they'd recognize that it was the LLM's fault because the LLM tells them that it might make things up.

It doesn't cure idiots, but it does make it harder for idiots to make the mistake of trusting your software. Instead, they push the image that their software is intelligent ("AI"), and constantly send the message that it is to be trusted.

The implication of using it for search results, or suggesting its use in corporations, is that it can be factual