And if you don’t always double check, it will bite you in the ass eventually. Good luck with that.

When did the web ever present itself as a completely factual and never wrong? There's plenty of evidence of wikipedia being wrong on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

Do I get things wrong? Sure, never said I was perfect either, if someone tells me I got a stat or a figure or something wrong, great!

The question for me is: is it wrong enough to make the results completely unreliable, and the answer to that is no, more often than not it provides accurate information.

If it wasn’t for the web being a monetized SEO algo shithole we could still just search the web!

That's not accurate to me, AI/SEO search results are still a minority of results that I get, most of the time I get close to what I'm looking for, but AI search summarisation is essentially the next level of search for me:

Dogpile/Altavista/AskJeeves > Google > AI powered search summarisation

I get essentially what I'm looking for directly, why click on a page with 47 ads, a video pop up or something else when all I'm looking for is:

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/do-you-have-a-basic-egg-on-toa-pkpsq9WwSMm5G8ICsmDnbw#0

Is it a complete replacement? Not yet, Ecosia is still my daily driver having used it 25,000+ times in the last year but AI is making a serious dent in how often I use it.

we don’t need to build acres of compute powered by nuclear reactors to fix the problem.

I would keep an eye on that, the gains in AI have been massive in the last few years, and we're starting to potentially see a turning point with DeepSeekv3 being created on a fraction of the cost and power of other models

DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M).

For reference, this level of capability is supposed to require clusters of closer to 16K GPUs...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/deepseeks-new-ai-model-appears-to-be-one-of-the-best-open-challengers-yet/

*This could turn out to be wrong hence why I'm keeping an eye on it **I'm absolutely certain a whole lot of execs are stunned right now they're spending billions when something that cost millions came up right next to them