Search results drowned in AI summaries
A “helpful summary” now sits above the search box — smooth to read, with not one source you can actually open.
BenPig looked up a simple question and the entire first screen was an AI summary — confident tone, pretty layout, and not a single source. The people who actually wrote about it were three scrolls down, their links shoved into the corners.
The problem isn't whether the summary is wrong. It's that it makes you not want to click further. When a “good enough” answer is right there, who reads the blog that did the real homework? Writers are being buried under a machine fed on their own writing.
BenPig's fix is dumb but it works: make “who wrote this?” the first reflex of every search. An answer with no name attached gets a raised eyebrow first.