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Let's get this rolling with an interesting fact: I once asked an AI search engine, "How do you cook an egg?" and it replied with, "Before you start, make sure the egg doesn't have feelings." I wasn't trying to traumatize myself over breakfast emotionally.
Welcome to 2025: where AI search isn't just about links anymore, it's writing your term papers, summarizing court rulings, and sometimes even gaslighting you into thinking you asked the wrong question.
With the advent of AI-powered search engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity, these AI bots are not just reading the internet; they are interpreting it, adding a touch of creativity, and serving it to you as if it were prepared from Grandma's secret recipe. Grandma didn't pull her recipes from a Reddit thread written by a guy named TacoWizard1992.
In the good old days, Google showed you ten blue links and wished you good luck. It was the internet’s version of a librarian shrugging, saying, 'Here’s the shelf. Knock yourself out.'
Now, AI search answers your questions directly using language models trained on gazillions of webpages. But here’s the twist: AI doesn’t just fetch facts. It makes informed judgments, selects credible sources, merges content, and produces confident answers. Essentially, it’s like asking your overly confident cousin who once watched half a documentary about economics to explain inflation.
Unlike humans, AI doesn’t say 'I’m not sure.' It says, 'Here’s your answer,' with terrifying assurance - even when it’s 100% wrong.
Let’s get serious. When you have an AI search system that can:
Summarize news articles within seconds
Help students write academic essays
Offer medical opinions based on WebMD rabbit holes
Suggest financial decisions ('Should I invest in Dogecoin again?'
You’ve basically handed over the public library, your therapist, your stockbroker, and WebMD to a single algorithm…without any adult supervision.
What could go wrong? Oh, I don’t know - bias amplification, plagiarism, misinformation loops, and AI-powered results suggesting your cough is either seasonal allergies or your imminent doom.
Here’s a fun experiment: Ask three different AI search engines the same question and get three different answers. It’s like online dating - everyone's showing their best face, but the bios are slightly suspicious.
AI search doesn’t always disclose its sources. Sometimes it cherry-picks from content farms. Other times, it hallucinates a fake doctor from a nonexistent study published in 'The Journal of Probably Real Science.'
We need transparency laws that require AI to disclose sources, highlight confidence scores, and, perhaps, admit when it makes mistakes. (If people have to cite Wikipedia in college essays, AI can too.)
What happens when AI search engines start filtering what you see? Not in an evil villain way - but in a 'We don’t want to offend anyone, so here’s a sanitized version of history' kind of way.
Without regulation, AI answers can subtly be curated to please advertisers, governments, or the platform’s personal ideology. Imagine asking about climate change and getting a balanced perspective that combines peer-reviewed science with a nuanced view, rather than a one-sided take from Uncle Bob’s Facebook rant.
If AI is going to become our collective voice of knowledge, then we need to know who’s whispering in its ears. This isn’t just a tech issue - it’s a democratic one.
Also Read: AI Regulations in India: The Road Ahead
Good question. Ideally, it should include:
Mandatory Source Disclosure – If AI quotes something, we should be able to trace it back like digital breadcrumbs.
Bias Auditing – Independent watchdogs must test AI for political, racial, or cultural bias. AI shouldn't think Shakespeare was a Marvel superhero.
User Choice in Source Prioritization – Want more academic papers or indie blogs? Let users toggle the 'vibe.'
‘AI Hallucination’ Labels – If the model’s unsure, say so. A little humility goes a long way.
Monopoly Control – If one company controls AI answers for 5 billion people, maybe - just maybe - we should peek under the hood.
Let’s not wait until someone sues an AI for bad legal advice that ended in jail time or a breakup caused by Siri’s misinterpreted sarcasm.
AI search is powerful. Possibly too powerful. It can answer any question, summarize any thought, and maybe soon, finish your sentences.
But without rules, transparency, and some good old-fashioned accountability, we’re just feeding this digital beast more data, hoping it doesn’t eventually write its own constitution.
And until we have that regulation?
I’ll be triple-checking every AI-generated omelette recipe. Just in case the egg actually does have feelings.
