It's a relevant question about the economic model for the web. On one hand, the replacement of search with a LLM-based approach threatens the existing, advertis

It's a relevant question about the economic model for the web. On one hand, the replacement of search with a LLM-based approach threatens the existing, advertising-based model. On the other hand, the advertising model has produced so much harm: literally irreparable damage to attention spans, outrage-driven "engagement", and the general enshittification of the internet to mention just a few. I find it a bit hard to imagine whatever succeeds it will be worse for us collectively. My question is, how to reproduce this level of functionality locally, in a "home lab" type setting. I fully expect the various AI companies to follow the exact same business model as any other VC-funded tech outfit: free service (you're the product) -> paid service (you're still the product) -> paid service with advertising baked in (now you're unabashedly the product). I fear that with LLM-based offerings, the advertising will be increasingly inseparable, and eventually undetectable, from the actual useful information we seek. I'd like to get a "clean" capsule of the world's compendium of knowledge with this amazing ability to self-reason, before it's truly corrupted.