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?
Probably, however I will not be doing that because LLM models are dogshit and hallucinate bullshit half the time. I wouldn’t trust a single fucking thing that a LLM provides.
Fair enough, and that’s actually really good. You’re going to be one of the few who actually go through the trouble of making an account on a forum, ask a single question, and never visit the place after getting the answer. People like you are the reason why the internet has an answer to just about anything.
Haha. Yes I’ll be a tech Boomer. Stuck in my old ways. Although answers on forums are often straight misinformation so really there’s no perfect solution to get answers. You just have to cross check as many sources as possible.