Yes, for information and reference we already had Wikipedia and billions of web pages indexed in Google, searchable by keyword. For questions we had reddit, StackOverflow and forums. For chatting we had social networks, chatting with real humans. For image we had only search, but within billions of images. Faster than gen AI, and made by humans. For code we had hundreds of thousands of repos.

We already had the genAI goodies for 2 decades. It's not going to be such a shocking change.