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What broader shift in information access do large language models represent compared to search engines?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

LLMs go beyond finding ideas to formulating them into cohesive theories.

Once an idea or thought was published digitally on the internet, search engines were able to find it. Search is one reason we see more populist movements around the world. Ideas that were once on the fringes are today brought together as movements. Large language models are the next step. They help compile, summarize and streamline every possible idea. Suddenly, you don’t just find ideas anymore. An AI is formulating them into seemingly cohesive theories. Knowledge has simply become more readily accessible, for good and for bad.

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