Yep. It won't be long before the web is flooded with pages full of AI-generated content repeatedly mentioning brands near keywords, and "search engines" have been replaced by "summaries" monetized by prompt-stuffing. That's pretty much the extent of these people's genius.

EDIT: I guess the final step is for an "AI agent" to enter your credit card number based on this bot-chat.

Yep, I was discussing it with my partner a few months ago. It is just too good right now, in a lot of cases you just slip past all the fluff which are impossible to avoid with traditional search.

The opportunities for AI providers to capitalize on that are too prominent. No idea how long it will take, but imo it's inevitable.

Yep. Google is an ad company that makes most of its money putting ads on its search page, and Gemini is a Google product that lets you get search results from Google without ads. It doesn't make any sense.

you're literally commenting on a press release by the greediest vc firm. would you care to elaborate your point?

my "marketing and propaganda", do you mean "other AI model output"?

The internet was pretty bad without AI already, but I can see it heading quickly towards complete nonsense and lack of trust. We are going to have all the same problems we had before AI, but multiplied 100x