Putting it this way I can see more clearly the similarity between both and the fact that maybe search engines are already using AI.

I don't need answers I need raw information to analyze myself.

I don't need to believe anything else but the concept. Everything else is fixable and new providers are solving this.

How to explain it better. I don't need answer generators. I want raw content I can analyze myself.

Yet it makes the choices on my behalf which is the core problem.

Spot on. The content still exists - https://ipfs-search.com/#/ and it's not totally doomed as long as we value it.

This doesn't defeat the problem with something making a decision on my behalf.

Of course, I agree with that and new search engines without caveats are built such as - https://ipfs-search.com/#/ which is not centralized. If the concept is alive new providers will come.

We are comparing the concepts not the misbehavior of providers.

We are comparing the concepts not the behavior of providers. Indexed content choice vs an algorithm choosing the source for you.

It's not about AI vs search engines it's about indexed user content vs officially approved single source of truth.

That's still choice and I use it.

Yes officially approved and stamped right. The single source of truth. The dream of any dictatorship.

That's exactly the choice you don't have with AI.

But there are secondary answers to many questions.

Even if the index puts an article on page 100 I can still read it. With AI I have no choice.

So is any personal opinion but you have multiples of them and this is how you decide.

>The AI has been trained on a large corpus of data (scraped from the internet I guess?). Search engine has also been trained on a large selection of data from the internet. So what’s the difference ultimately?

One is an index where ultimately you decide what to read while the other one is a crystal ball with no alternative options.

The real problem starts when we have an extraordinary situation where people have no idea what's going on and the only answer you get is from wikipedia and officials. That's when we're in big trouble when it comes to free society.

The choice is there. I am not saying search engines are the best. All I am saying is the concept of user crowdsourced content will always be more real than an algorithm choosing from approved sources only.

Can you host a website and get it indexed? Is that not free choice still compared to AI which cites only official approved sources?

Having a single source of truth has always been called dictatorship and censorship.

There you go - choice. Which doesn't exist with AI.

The question in discussion is freedom of choice for the user. There is no freedom in receiving a single answer to anything.

The question in discussion is freedom of choice for the user. There is no freedom in receiving a single answer to anything.

You still have the choice though.