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Doesn't an AI search engine cost more in terms of energy? I would also wonder how it avoids being tainted by a web of other AI results of various qualities that it is indexing. It would appear to become more expensive to operate, thus requiring more ad revenue to support it but providing less useful results over time.

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> Doesn't an AI search engine cost more in terms of energy?

I'm pretty sure it does. I'm convinced this AI bubble will pop when it turns out that many of these use cases are not actually profitable. For now there's still plenty of cash left from zero interest era to throw at subsidizing this stuff.

> For now there's still plenty of cash left from zero interest era to throw at subsidizing this stuff.

For now these press releases push the stock price up. This is what matters to those corps in the end

I am considering paying for either ChatGPT or perlexity.

>I would also wonder how it avoids being tainted by a web of other AI results of various qualities that it is indexing.

I also wonder that....how Gemini and other LLM chat bots decide what to index and include in an answer and what to not include. I guess good old PageRank[0] would be decent here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

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