I'm kind of worried that the AI offered to consumers will behave as a very savvy and manipulative shill or salesperson.

I use an adblocker and DDG. I sometimes use !g to search Google.

I wonder if people will run local models to filter the content they consume. On one hand I would hate to read slop output. I also dislike censorship. But on the other hand, I think that the information we decide to ingest is important and it's something we should have control over. The problem is you can't really decide what information to ingest until we've looked at it, after which point we've ingested it.

I digress. Thoughts?