From 45b981d5b25fe6d62b3789a4b117f2439b20adfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cory Dransfeldt Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:44:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] chore: post --- ...ai-cannot-and-should-not-replace-search.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/posts/2024/ai-cannot-and-should-not-replace-search.md diff --git a/src/posts/2024/ai-cannot-and-should-not-replace-search.md b/src/posts/2024/ai-cannot-and-should-not-replace-search.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..141d86eb --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/2024/ai-cannot-and-should-not-replace-search.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +date: '2024-04-05T13:30-08:00' +title: 'AI cannot and should not replace search' +description: "Name a search engine and it will have integrated AI — but can you name one that's any better for it? I'm at a loss and I can't help but wince every time another announces some sort of LLM integration." +tags: ['AI', 'tech'] +--- +Name a search engine and it will have integrated AI — but can you name one that's any better for it? I'm at a loss and I can't help but wince every time another announces some sort of LLM integration. + +Search engines, at their core, should seek to surface information quickly and transparently. Google started there before ever more ads encroached on and cluttered results. I want clarity, relevance and brevity. DuckDuckGo's results were just fine and the last thing I need are questionable answers from an AI bolted to the top of the page. + +If I want to gamble on inaccurate information and hope against hope that the information yielded isn't a hallucination, I know where to look for a chat interface to your LLM. + +I don't want AI in my browser when I've got a perfectly capable address bar. + +I want search that *directs me to* the site I'm interested in instead of one [that extracts value from said pages with nothing offered in return](https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/access-to-data-isnt-a-grant-to-exploit-it/). + +If I'm looking for news, I want something I can trust, something with an ounce of journalistic rigor — and tech has already done its level best to kill institutions providing exactly that. AI can't perform journalism — at best it can summarize it. All AI can offer journalism is more unncessary job cuts and value extraction. + +Search has become bad enough as ads have become more pervasive and SEO abuse has grown. AI-powered search stands to offer worse, more expensive results that you can trust even less. + +The best answer to a query AI can provide me with is the URL of a search engine uncluttered by its nonsense. \ No newline at end of file