I wouldn't say a "worse Google", and I'm also tired of the hallucinations and people copy-pasting AI-generated bullshit as if it was correct. It's just a diffe

I wouldn't say a "worse Google", and I'm also tired of the hallucinations and people copy-pasting AI-generated bullshit as if it was correct. It's just a different tool than Google, and quite complimentary in many ways: instead of doing many keywords searches to collect information, aggregate it in a mental model, and derive a conclusion, it's easier to ask it to answer the aggregation I need and back-verify if it makes sense. To me it has helped a lot to not have to know the right incantations of keywords for the information I'm trying to find right out of the bat, and from the LLM answer I can backtrace what searches to do to confirm the validity of it. It's a small twist but it has definitely showed me some value in these tools for more general information lookup. The thing is: I still want and need to have a search engine, if for some reason search engines cease to exist and LLMs take their place I will not be able to trust anything...