Do you doubt the statement on how to maximize usefulness? Or do you mean that the companies behind the models might not optimize (exclusively) for usefulness to the user?
> Do you doubt the statement on how to maximize usefulness?
Yes; the customer here is the site using it, not Google end users, who'll tend to accept whatever's the top search result even if it's deeply wrong or complete slop.
The wellbeing of search users isn't really the priority here, right?
> Do you doubt the statement on how to maximize usefulness?
Yes; the customer here is the site using it, not Google end users, who'll tend to accept whatever's the top search result even if it's deeply wrong or complete slop.
The wellbeing of search users isn't really the priority here, right?