Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models from OpenAI and others. Critics say that's a problem.
More and more of the Internet is being ai generated, so you’ll get to choose from a soulless summary or soulless SEO spam.
There will be alternatives I think. Maybe the web turns into even more trash but then there will be alternatives for people who knows where to look.
I guess it’s the fate of the web to become cable TV. But that doesn’t mean we have to watch that content.