I'm pretty sure that's what most people would do now and the AI summary would still be wrong half the time anyway.

I don't think much has changed at all. The LLMs don't magically have new information that didn't already exist out there.

In recent months (I don't use it enough to confidently state when the change occurred) Google's LLM summary more often answers the wrong question rather than confidently answering the question wrong.

If it answers and the answer is for what I asked, it is right much more often than not. With that said, "trust but verify" is more like "don't trust and also verify" anyway, which is the same metric that should be used for most websites.

That is why I turned off the AI summary on Google. Useless 90% of the time, takes up space on my screen.

> google

he specifically asked for non-LLM, tho :)

Julia = she

Very irritating tendency of people here to assume everyone on the internet is “he”.

To be fair, the grandparent comment being replied to has a username beginning with Mr.

I went the obvious path, back in the days.

Same lol. You can email HN and they will change your username if you ask. They did it for me!

he is the default

It used to be but in my circles defaulting to he/him for everyone is considered bad form and foolish.

better than being bad at math

Back in my day, Google wasn’t an LLM. And we liked it!

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"they" is for multiple people

> googled

Could've been a trip to a local library!