You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results

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Soon, Google might just tell you what’s on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see more AI Overviews at the top of the results page, but Google is also testing a more substantial change in the form of AI Mode. This version of Google won’t show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode.

Google insists this is not the end of web search, saying that helping people discover content online “remains central” to its approach. Indeed, the examples Google shows include links and citations from around the web similar to AI Overviews. However, you can’t just scroll down in AI Mode to see organic results. Instead, AI Mode is designed to operate in a conversational way, allowing you to refine your search or ask follow-up questions.

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Ironically, this might be an improvement on what I’ve heard Google search is like today. Apparently, the average SERP starts with an AI summary / full AI Knowledge Panel, a list of AI-generated FAQs, followed by 4 sponsored results, and then you can get to the results.

Here, the results are the first thing you see.

Unfortunately, what really sucks is that it doesn’t show you the full URL or a summary of the page. You need to read the AI-generated answer to figure that out. I don’t think this is a big improvement on the current state of affairs.

I learned from this Mojeek video that this looks a lot like how Google really thought their SERPs should look like in 2000: Mojeek on AI - Our Take - TILvids

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Automating smug elites and government lies is just going to make me even more bitter.

The trouble with generative AI is that it short-circuits that process entirely. One begins to suspect that a great many students wanted this all along: to make it through college unaltered, unscathed. To be precisely the same person at graduation, and after, as they were on the first day they arrived on campus. As if the whole experience had never really happened at all.

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well i’ll be - i have some hope for AI after all

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I get the use of generative AI in high school. If I were younger, I might have even made use of it myself (though I probably would have had too much pride back then to consider it…). For college, though… that’s a bridge too far. I can’t imagine paying the exorbitant fees for that sort of education and having your AI assistant attend all your lectures and write your essays for you.

That essay depressed me. I am so sick of reading AI-generated writing. It’s the output I despise the most. AI-generated art is equally forgettable.

I don’t mind AI-generated code so much. I even prompt some of it to be generated myself. But I wouldn’t want human software engineers to disappear…

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i agree with what you said, except for the last part

i’m not a (competent) coder, but i am aware of the very poor state of software in general regarding efficiency and security and the problem has gotten worse over the years as developers rely on newer hardware instead of efficient coding practices, and bloated dependencies they don’t bother to audit, generally speaking, which often have security vulnerabilities

i think it was the FSF that wrote an article about this in which they estimated that something like 90% of software is essentially crap

and we obviously see this trend manifesting in web development as well where i’m not sure a lot of these so called “full stack developers” could code their way out of a wet paper bag without relying on a plethora of 3rd parties, most often needlessly

i’ve seen websites that pull content from 20+ domains and gobble up more than 70 MB just to load the damn index page - it’s absolutely disgusting

granted AI – that which the public has access to anyway – isn’t capable of writing super great code, far as i know, but i think that’s a very worthy goal for AI devs

at that point it might be simply a matter of providing an outline and some guidance to get the desired result and that could make software development much more accessible, efficient and secure

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I actually agree with most of that too :slight_smile:

npm sends shivers down my spine.

I don’t know about security, but it could certainly result in providing a higher baseline for software quality. Then again, you’d also need lots of high quality training data :thinking:

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So let me get this straight. Google spent decades building the world’s largest index of the internet, only to now say “Actually, you don’t need the internet, we’ll just tell you what’s on it”

This isn’t about convenience. It’s about control. AI Mode isn’t improving search, it’s removing it altogether. No more clicking through to independent sites (no more verifying sources) Just one AI-generated answer, with Google deciding what’s “true”…

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Welcome @janyjan to the community. One answer was their dream all along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFwSQiTu3I

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we’ve been in a transition toward a technocratic police state and this is being ramped up in the U.S. with the “election” of Trump and the introduction of Musk

the investment in AI is a major part of that, as was the establishment of the Bitcoin reserve

cash, and therefore private transactions, as well as other records, will be replaced with a digital mechanism

Aaron Russo discovered this nearly 2 decades ago as a result of his close association with Nick Rockefeller - he talks about this during an interview attached to the film he claimed to be most proud of despite losing money on it, America : Freedom to Fascism - the interview starts at 1:50:42

i put ‘election’ in quotes earlier because there are no elections - people are allowed to choose between 2 candidates, both heavily compromised and controlled - it’s a uni-party system in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere

i understand completely why people voted for Trump - these are largely the kind of people i associate with and they are sick to death of what Musk calls ‘the woke mind virus’, illegal immigration, child trafficking, transgenderism, the COVID stupidity, the promotion of socialist/communist ideologies, etc., etc., etc., but these people are now cheering for the exact same things they were raising hell over a few decades ago, such as they did with the proposed North American Union, digital ID, the issuance of large numbers of executive orders, etc.

this move toward a digital, authoritarian world is interesting in its sophistication; like their adoption of the cell phone, people will want these things because they’re being sold to them as conveniences and people aren’t investing an iota of thought into what the consequences are and how this has, and continues to eliminate what few freedoms they have left

money = greed = corruption - it always has and it always will for as long as we monkeys choose to adhere to such wildly idiotic systems

what happened with Google and Microsoft and countless other corporations and governments is a perfectly natural progression in such a system

people have been fighting to clean up the system for 200+ years in the U.S. and elsewhere

how has that worked out?

the answer is to scrap our current systems and develop new ones

The Venus Project holds many of the answers to a well-functioning society

so does Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist - The Movie) and Buckminster Fuller

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bit of an addendum to my last post … i linked the Zeitgeist film as an example of the kinds of problems we face, however as i now re-watch that production, it is obvious that Peter Joseph made some tangential errors that are not relevant to the main plot, particularly regarding the 9/11 attacks - i don’t think this was intentional and the timing of the production must be considered, 2007, which was still somewhat early as far as what was known and what was speculation

here are the facts and what he got wrong…

  • a plane DID hit the Pentagon and until one can explain away the hundreds of witnesses that either saw a plane on a path toward the building nand never progressing further, or those that witnessed it hitting the building, it is not logical to assume it didn’t hit the building (there’s also a massive amount of other evidence)
  • flight 93 was in fact shot down and parts of it DID wind up near Shanksville - the debris field was miles long, thus why not all of the plane ended up in one neat pile (one of the engines was found in a pond quite a distance from “the crash site”)

the flight had been shadowed by military aircraft for some time, likely 2 since they’re always sent in pairs, but they were never able to contact the cockpit of 93 and therefore they downed the plane as is the protocol

there’s plenty of evidence to support this including Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld slips of the tongue (they outright admitted it), military whistleblowers and my own interview of a senior commercial airline pilot and pilot trainer who had access to flight 93s CVR (one of the so-called “black boxes”) as part of a program for training pilots with regard to security and developing methods to combat hijackings post 9/11

Joseph sources the lunatics that made the Loose Change “documentary” to support his incorrect views, but the films authors were later forced to recant or correct many of their core beliefs, hence LC 2 and 3, where they still got a lot wrong

he also sources Richard Gage, an architect that (i believe) founded Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and there’s serious problems with that org

  1. Gage, an architect, made the claim that an aluminum 757 was not capable of penetrating the “6 concrete walls” of the Pentagon … and he’s right … except that this architect NEVER BOTHERED TO LOOK AT THE ARCHITECTURE of the Pentagon (the ground floor had 2 walls, not 6) and it took something like 20 years before they finally admitted this catastrophic blunder
  2. a lot of the architects that A&E lists as signatories were signed without their consent

that said, the official version of the 11-Sep-01 attacks is a joke and anyone wanting to know the verifiable facts, the state actors (plural) involved, the money trails and the reasons for the attack, ought to look into the works of Ryan Dawson, Whitney Webb, James Corbett, Michael Ruppert (dead) and other serious researchers (the internet “9/11 truth” movement as a whole is saturated with bovine feces)

…all that said, i still highly recommend the works of Peter Joseph, a highly intelligent and forward thinker, as was jacque fresco, the founder of The Venus Project who spent the majority of his life developing sensible and sustainable systems as alternatives to the Neanderthal minded, Orwellian systems we currently live under

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DOGE’s Plans To Replace Humans With AI Are Already Under Way

This is further evidence that Technocracy is taking over. When the Trilateral Commission took over the Carter Administration in 1976, they restructured the economic system of the world, calling it the New International Economic Order. Once it was done, it was impossible to undo it. DOGE is the last shoe to drop. Once the AI invasion is done, labor will be crushed, and America will be ruled by algorithms. We will not and cannot escape from its claws; the damage to liberty and freedom will be permanent.

It’s very sad that America is oblivious to this clear and present danger. It’s not that they weren’t warned. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.

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I’d always had the hunch that Google would want to do away with knowledge panels wrt their reliance on semantic relevance for ‘things’ in the same way they did away with DMOZ for link popularity. Though their AI answers extend way beyond ‘things’.

It’s annoying that people don’t call out the inaccurate information returned and show more scepticism about the information returned, or value the original sources.

Hopefully there’s a way where people value original work, authentic and knowledgeable first hand sources beyond the AI slop.

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