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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think it's going to kill free search engines because it can go do a search on all of them at once in seconds and no human will ever see those ads.

So sites will move to paywalls or aggresive WAFs and those LLMs will become useless at the same time succeeding in killing search engines leaving no viable alternatives.

Already half the public internet is inaccessible without allowing to be heavily fingerprinted and be tracked just to prove you are a human user.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's possible that a huge number of sites that are currently free will turn to paywalls but that won't make the local AI useless. You'll just give it your login credentials for any sites you want it to search and it'll do it's thing (and no, captias don't work with AI models... They're only good at stopping basic crawlers).

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

WAFs are not captchas. Do some research.