deliriousdreams

Google has already been caught out doing this. They reduced the quality of search results and placed ads and SEO (companies that pay to be first in the SEO rankings) ahead of other results. This was happening before they had a Gen AI LLM.

It’s intent is to keep you on the search page longer, viewing ads so they can get more ad revenue.

They’re an ad aggregation company first and foremost and search (along with their other suite of products) is how they serve those ads.

I bet there’s some correlation there. After all, if you’re religious you’re a lot more likely to believe things told to you by a supposed authority figure. Still, correlation does not equal causation.