Comment by tharkun__ | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tharkun__ | Hacker News Reader

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When I search

    switching to LLM based search products in droves.

it says

    The shift towards LLM-based search products is significant as they offer more conversational and personalized responses compared to traditional search engines. This change is driven by users seeking quicker, more relevant answers and a better overall experience

So it must be true, right? Coz that's the only thing I searched for. I got my answer. Why would I search for the opposite? My bias was confirmed. I'm happy and will repeat the results to all my friends, who will search for the same thing to confirm and get confirmation!

This is sarcasm, correct? Cause really, you wanna find data that doesn't agree with you... if the objective is to be more smarter.

ChatGPT agreed it's not sarcasm.

This hurts but it’s so accurate lol

No. And yes.

Yes it's meant sarcastically. Personally I agree with you that you want to look at pros and cons, both sides.

But there are many, oh very very many people out there who would literally do exactly what I wrote. They do it all the time. That's why we have these echo chambers everywhere. And AI as we can see here is not making it better.

And it's not just the "general population". I see it on a technical level too at work. Developers just trusting the AI output. It sounded confident when it said it found the root cause, fixed the bug and added tests. So it's good to commit, right?

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