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People have said that and ive read a few studies. Its a truism because the search quality degraded but mostly due to SEO and link spam. If someone wants to post actual evidence of google "actively making search worse" I'd love to read it. So far i only saw that it was due to SEO spam which affects all search providers. While people here are trying to claim it was done nefariously to force people towards AI.
I dont think AI summary is ever going to be something people NEED. In most cases its better and it will cover majority of searches but its unlikely to cover 100% of cases. You will always need to be able to find things on the web like links.
AI in other areas its not even looking bad for workers. Its largely overhyped from what I see. Programming seems the most useful field but even then its like x0.1 or x0.2 boost in efficiency. This year it got much better. Maybe things will change next year I'll have to see.
I've seen a few articles going over this memo, here's one article discussing it:
https://rudevulture.com/journalist-explains-why-google-deliberately-made-its-search-engine-worse/
And when I say deskilled, I didn't mean in the work space, but inability to source information themselves...