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It is NOT fine as a "search engine". If you even read AI summaries you're dumber this year than you were last year.
To be fair, ai summarys and using it as a search engine are two VERY fucking different tasks. Like night and fucking day.
It also doesn't help the ai models in charge of the summaries on most search engines are some of the stupidest lowest quality pieces of shit we have.
A model told to actually do a search properly is functionally no different than if you or I did it. And will actually be able to do the job properly. They are very good at this sorta work load.
You ask it to go though a bunch of summaries then summarize those summaries and do use in like 1 seconds. You of course are getting fucking slop.
You aren't giving it the time or information needed to do the fucking job right. They arnt magic machines they can't do shit instantly.
Our AI user humans are some of the stupidest lowest quality pieces of shit we have as well.
I'm sorry, but I'm certain that the average AI summary beats/matches what the average person gets from a normal search. You're acting like people before AI didn't just believe whatever the first or second link told them, for most cases.
If you've ever even read the summary of a study, you're in the top 10% of "people that research online".
So basically people burn more energy while doing the same shit as before. Yeah you're really selling it. Generally we should be fixing stupidly instead of letting billionaire parasites leach off of it.