As LLMs become the go-to for quick answers, fewer people are posting questions on forums or social media. This shift could make online searches less fruitful in the future, with fewer discussions and solutions available publicly. Imagine troubleshooting a tech issue and finding nothing online because everyone else asked an LLM instead. You do the same, but the LLM only knows the manual, offering no further help. Stuck, you contact tech support, wait weeks for a reply, and the cycle continues—no new training data for LLMs or new pages for search engines to index. Could this lead to a future where both search results and LLMs are less effective?
I think you will be in a loud minority, people don’t like additional work.
Even “let me Google that for you” was popular only some years ago. Yes, people are lazy, unthinking hedonists most of the time. In the absence of some sort of strict moral basis, society degenerates because only the tiniest minority will even think about things to try to establish some personal rules.
I still use https://lmgtfy.com/ as a public shame for anyone that can’t be arsed to put in a bit of effort to find something.
Probably
But I don’t see it as work
“Work” is unfucking a situation that I created by being lazy in the first place rather than doing something properly
I’m probably showing my age though…