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 get the feeling that LLMs are designed to please humans, so uncomfortable answers like “I don’t know” are out of the question.
Not designed, but trained. Training involves rewarding finding answers, so they WILL give you something. “I don’t know” is not going to fare well in the training development, so it naturally gets filtered out, while very creative (but wrong) LLMs do well.
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