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You have choices and high quality options available. You don't have to accept an ad-infested experience, use AI you can't control or settle for mediocre or incorrect results. It's harmful to the web, compromises your privacy, and makes it difficult to find relevant information by humans.

Thomas Germain@thomasgermain.bsky.social

Google has a new button. It might destroy the web as you know it. Experts say the new “AI Mode” is an asteroid aimed at the heart of the internet, one that could decimate millions of websites. It seems this chapter of online history is over. Here’s what comes next: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Today I asked AI if a particular laser leveler had height control. It confidently assured me that it did. It took several goes and thorough checking of all the references for it to finally tell me that it didn't "explicitly" have height control. Quicker and more accurate to phone the shop.