What they saying in this post is that they are designing these LLM-based features to support search.

The post describes how their use-case is finding high quality sources relevant to a query and providing summaries with references/links to the user (not generating long-form "research reports")

FWIW, this aligns with what I've found ChatGPT useful for: a better Google, rather than a robotic writer.

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theoldgreybeard 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm sure Google also says they built "AI mode" to "support search".

Their search is still trash.

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esafak 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Except the AI mode filters out the bad results for you :)

	▲	saghm 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have a no-AI mode that filters out the bad results too. The problem is that it doesn't return any results at all, as it doesn't help with the harder problem of filtering out only the bad results without the good ones though. So far it's not clear to me that LLMs have significantly moved the needle on the ability to differentiate this.
	▲	theoldgreybeard an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In my experience the same slop garbage I get in search is the same slop garbage, only “summarized”, in AI mode.