So search engines in their traditional sense will be obsolete anyway.
1) GPT-4 and other such LLMs will generate textbooks and manuals for every conceivable topic.
2) These textbooks will be 'dehallucinated' and curated by known experts on particular topics, who have reputations to maintain. The experts' names will be advertised by the LLM provider.
3) People will search for stuff by chatting with the LLMs, which will in turn provide citations for the chat output from the curated textbooks.
So search engines in their traditional sense will be obsolete anyway.
1) GPT-4 and other such LLMs will generate textbooks and manuals for every conceivable topic.
2) These textbooks will be 'dehallucinated' and curated by known experts on particular topics, who have reputations to maintain. The experts' names will be advertised by the LLM provider.
3) People will search for stuff by chatting with the LLMs, which will in turn provide citations for the chat output from the curated textbooks.