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▲ inferiorhuman 11 hours ago

   "here's the type of message that the author of this page is trying to convey" is not what most people think is a simple question
It's also not the question I asked. I'm literally trying to parse out what question was asked. That's what makes AI slop so infuriating: it's entirely orthogonal to the information I'm after.

  Asking Google "what is the flag for persevering Metadata using scp" and getting the flag
  name instead of a SEO article with the a misleading title go on about so third party program
  that you can download that does exactly that and never actually tell you the answer is
  ridiculous and I am happy AI has help reduce the click bait
Except that the AI slop Google and Microsoft and DDG use for summaries masks whether or not a result is SEO nonsense. Instead of using excerpts of the page the AI summary simply suggests that the SEO garbage is answering the question you asked. These bullshit AI summaries make it infinitely harder to parse out what's actually useful. I suppose that's the goal though. Hide that most of the results are low quality and force you to click through to more pages (ad views) to find something relevant. AI slop changes the summaries from "garbage in, garbage out" to simply "garbage out".
▲NewsaHackO 3 hours ago | parent [-]

At least with Google, it quotes the pages where it gets the information from. Also, I think you are definitely underplaying the fact that it answers the question in one sentence,as wellas the whole ask a question get a compact answer. I am going to need a concrete example, because in my experience, the AI summary has never even required me to verify the source except out of curiosity, much less click on any search results.