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Will LLMs make finding answers online a thing of the past? (futurology.today)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by chaosCruiser@futurology.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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As LLMs become the go-to for quick answers, fewer people are posting questions on forums or social media. This shift could make online searches less fruitful in the future, with fewer discussions and solutions available publicly. Imagine troubleshooting a tech issue and finding nothing online because everyone else asked an LLM instead. You do the same, but the LLM only knows the manual, offering no further help. Stuck, you contact tech support, wait weeks for a reply, and the cycle continues—no new training data for LLMs or new pages for search engines to index. Could this lead to a future where both search results and LLMs are less effective?

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

LLMs are the big block V8 of search engines. They can do things very fast and consume tons of resources with subterranean efficiency. On top of that, they are privacy invasive, easy to use for manipulation and speed up the problem of less mature users being spoon fed. General purpose LLMs need to be outlawed immediately.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

prohibition of anything is usually a bad idea

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Right. How about csam, incest, cannibalism?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago (12 children)

Silly me, I forgot that running an LLM model was so similar to cannibalism.

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