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The industry holds two judgments on the relationship between generative AI and traditional search, the "replacement theory" and the "enhancement theory": the replacement theory holds that large models giving answers directly will erode the value of the search entry point; the enhancement theory holds that AI lowers the threshold for asking questions and supports multi-turn dialogue, thereby generating more queries.
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