Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models from OpenAI and others. Critics say that's a problem.
There sure was a lot less trash when the web first came to the internet and there weren’t any paid sites. Of course there was a lot less everything.
When it first started there were more smart people using it over dumbasses. What was there that would have even been worth paying for?