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The article already notes that
But the opposite is also true. Maybe it’s not 90% to 10% elsewhere, but I’d expect the same general imbalance because some people who would answer yes to ai in a survey on a search web site don’t go to search web sites in the first place. They go to ChatGPT or whatever.
It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.
Have you seen the quality of google searches the last few years? I'm not surprised at all. LLM might not give you the correct answer but at least it will provide you with one lol.
Thankfully Google is not the only search provider.
But they all suck, or rather the Internet kinda sucks these days. Google very much included in the sucking.
Oh im definitely thankful for that and personally i dont use google, but alas many people are not tech savvy enough to switch to a different search engine if they even know that others exists.
Most people don't even know the difference between an URL bar and a search bar, or more precisely: most devices use a browser that deliberately obfuscates that difference.