I will admit that I am conflicted. GPT delivers value to me ( paid sub ). That said, the article bothers me in a weird that is hard for me to express. Just the other day, google news had an article prominently displayed that said[1] 'I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine'..as in, you explicitly asked for it.

I don't like ads, but the reporting on anything llm related in media is just bonkers.

[1]https://www.wired.com/story/i-got-my-muse-ai-agent-to-sext-m...

Brave search is quite good for private browsing and supposedly private AI answers.

2026 is the 30th anniversary of targeted advertising on the internet. Do we really need to post a new version of the "<free service> shows you ads based on your data" article every single day? This is not a revelation. You are not enlightening the dumb tech-illiterate masses. People already know, and they don't care.

AI aside, just the fact that people are allowing themselves to be moved to a method of search that requires them to be logged in is troubling to start with.