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?
You only ignore AI slop when you recognize it as such.
I specifically ignore the google “AI summary”
I also tend to go through the results until I get something from a qualified source.
I’m sure I’m getting some of the aforementioned AI slop, but I would wager that I’m getting better results than the people I know who specifically look for an AI summary.