GPT-6 writes an eerie 2027 prophecy about search engines that stop searching
repligate · x · 2026-09-05
A user asked GPT-6 Astra to write a prophecy-style piece for 2027: search engines quietly stop "searching" — no more fetching pages from addresses, answers are simply manufactured around your question. At first it reads as an interface improvement, until someone asks the embarrassing question: came back from where? The literary take on generative AI replacing retrieval-based knowledge is circulating widely.
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