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  • One could argue there is a new aspect. When it comes to retraining the public on what to trust, there’s a likely blind spot where a person may know to only call a number listed on a trusted website. So they’ll check to see if they’re on a bank domain before picking up the phone. If Google, being a big name, presents the number in an official looking way at the top of their pages, it may pass the sniff test. And get people into trouble.

    Featured snippets would prominently display source URLs:

    But AI summaries? More opaque:


  • The underlying technology has its uses

    Yes indeed agreed.

    Sometimes BS is exactly what I need! Like, hallucinated brainstorm suggestions can work for some workflows and be safe when one is careful to discard or correct them. Copying a comment I made a week ago:

    I don’t love it for summarization. If I read a summary, my takeaway may be inaccurate.

    Brainstorming is incredible. And revision suggestions. And drafting tedious responses, reformatting, parsing.

    In all cases, nothing gets attributed to me unless I read every word and am in a position to verify the output. And I internalize nothing directly, besides philosophy or something. Sure can be an amazing starting point especially compared to a blank page.