Also very lengthy all the time. It can't really summarise without rambling. It's in no way succinct and too chatty. Verbose, you might say. Garrulous even. Loquacious, if you prefer. Needs to pipe down. Can't rein it in. Doesn't shut the fuck up.

Let's dig into that.

My wife works at a library. People constantly come in asking to use the library fax machine, because Google's AI says they have one.

They don't have one. Their website says they don't have one. But LLMs have determined it's plausible for libraries to have a fax machine, so Google tells people that they have one.

You'd be surprised at the number of people who can't accept that people working at the library know more about the library than Google.

I'd be surprised if this isn't already happening or at the very least being tested on a smaller scale.

How long? Brother, controlling the narrative is the entire point of why AIs are being shoved down your throat

Wow the masses with their Mechanical Turk, then pull the strings behind the scenes whenever you need to tip the scale in your favor. Drive engagement with your product? Sus out new innovations that could threaten your business model? Manufacture consent for your international apartheid resource extraction project? Stifle populist grassroots political movements at home?

You already know it’s true because you laugh about Grok every time it truth-dunks on Elon. We’re all collectively like “wow he can’t even control it enough to share his warped PR version of reality” which means we fucking know why these things exist: to gaslight the human race to the will of the capitalist ruling class

That is actually happening right now.

Browsing the modern internet without uBlock origin and maybe a cookie consent blocker is truly a horrible experience.

This, and newspaper writing style which endlessly beats around the bush, actually are the reasons for the mainstream accepting AI summaries. AI summaries only work because the Internet is a hellscape of intentionally bad UX with site-owners being hostile towards their users.

Don't forget the requests for location access that the site totally definitely needs...

Those aren't the valuable sites, though. They're content/SEO farms whose main purpose is to serve ads to eyeballs for profit. Many of those ads are hosted by Google themselves.

And which tech giant threw up their hands and let those shit-tier websites take over search results... I'll give you one guess.

Reminds me of Trump saying "everybody's saying..."

"Hi we noticed you're running an adblocker. You'll have to turn that off to see our site"

I call that one the ol' go fuck yourself.

Yes, but surely Google's plan long term is to be the one placing those ad booby traps and taking the money from that shopkeep, but obviously not in an evil way, that'd be weird.

The number of times I've seen AI overviews directly contradict the source material...