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My conspiracy theory is that they enshittified search to make AI look better.
How is this a conspiracy theory? Google literally made search worse to boost ad revenue. Why wouldnt engines do the same for their "gonna replace everyone and everything" llm?
It's a conspiracy theory in the sense Operation Condor is; well documented fact openly admitted to by the culprits but if you tell this to a normal person they will think that you're insane.
Normal people are strange and disconnected from reality
Definitely, my conspiracy is the same because a comrade on YouTube explained "It was better at being a search engine because google was so bad, it is still worse than old google but better than current one"