The summary is often incorrect in at least some subtle details, which is invisible to a lot of people who do not understand LLM limitations.

Now, we can argue that a typical SEO-optimized garbage article is not better, but I feel like the trust score for them was lower on average from a typical person.

I don't think searching for answers to simple questions was a problem until Google nerfed their own search engine.

There was a time before SEO slop that web search was really valuable

We're fighting slop with condensed slop

Hard disagree. AI summaries are useless for the same reason AI summaries from Google and DDG are useless: it's almost always missing the context. The AI page summaries typically take the form of "here's the type of message that the author of this page is trying to convey" instead of "here's what the page actually says". Just give me the fucking contents. If I wanted AI slop I'd ask my fucking doorknob.