I like to think so.

The entire premise developing agi isn't about a "new scientific breakthrough" as much as it is a way to surveil and profile people.

with web search, you have the option to opt out of cookies, which basically doesn't allow trackers to track you on websites. were not even taking into account adblockers such as UblockOrigin or privacy badger, which has been an ongoing war with big tech.

Anyways, with LLM's, they have control of your prompts, they have access to your account and they can target advertisements or sell your data to the highest bidder.

So, when google announced that search will be depreciated and replaced with their Gemini AGI, that to me was the first real indicator that their intentionally making search shitty to boost usage of their AI.