>>29232>but seriously—if I want an AI-generated summary, I’ll ask for one.Thats the problem, they know its in the way and obnoxious but thats their marketing strategy. Theres been a mentality going on in business/marketing for several decades called cross-selling where they introduce something alongside the original product to have you buy that as well. What these search engines are doing is basically this on crack since the service is free and they have to maximize as much as they can to control what someone sees. You can more easily sneak in promoted websites if the customer is looking where the info is from. Naturally, there are some who take the AI answer at face value or the ones who dismiss the AI and just go towards regular search engine experiences. But in the middle id the people who want to check the accuracy. Where does the AI pool much of its info from? Well the answer nowadays is extremely simple: businesses who have a website promoted by google. Now home care, lawn care, blue collar labor, repair, etc can all be sneakily added to search engine via its AI prompt which they make sure is obnoxiously the first thing everyone sees and disguises itself as an instant answer.
Try it for yourself. Search up anything, especially labor related, and the sources it will pool from will be some legitimate sources but interlaced in between, sometimes at the forefront, is random businesses, much of which is local.
Most of these services get their money for advertising and this is yet another way to do so as an adapted form of cross-selling. They have made the process of checking if AI is accurate into yet another marketing scheme. genAI in a nutshell.
