cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37149554
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It's all money. As in a lot of money has already been dumped into the infrastructure to host LLMs and "in an ideal world" they'd be making the money back from selling all the data these "Ai" type features can collect. But casual users haven't embraced the change as much as companies were hoping. So the only way to get users on board is ramming it down their throats until they got no choice but to swallow.
And sadly people are "lazier" than most people want to believe. You give people an optional Ai search feature next to the standard one and most people will ignore it. Take away the original and only a subset of users will jump to another ship to seek that "old" user experience rather than just getting used to the "new norm".