Just heard this today - co worker used an LLM to find him some shoes that fit. Basically prompted it to find specific shoes that fit wider/narrower feet and it just scraped reviews and told him what to get. I guess it worked perfectly for him.
I hate this sort of thing - however this is why normies love LLM’s. It’s going to be the new way every single person uses the internet. Hell, on a new win 11 install the first thing that comes up is copilot saying “hey use me i’m better than google!!”
Frustrating.
The reason there’s “all the crap” is because genAI is destroying the fabric of the open web.
We need to support tools like Kagi, discussion forums and chat rooms where real people help, and be proactive in posting solutions and tutorials on indie blogs which simultaneously block AI crawlers. GenAI tooling is fundamentally unethical and unsustainable; regurgitating other people’s content while harming the environment. I understand you have a need to search for some solutions to some problems. That’s fine. What’s not fine is reaching for the destroyer of worlds. I encourage you to find alternative methods.