I might be that annoying friend — the one who always wants to fact-check something. I’m not usually trying to be obnoxious, I just want to make sure I’m getting the correct information, especially when things are so easily faked right now (sorry, it’s true). Honestly, I’ve always been this way, and I think it started with a heavy reliance on Google Lens.Seriously, though, I used Google’s camera-based identifier for everything. Unfamiliar shoes? Google Lens. Weird plant? Google Lens. Dog I’ve never seen before? I’ll usually ask its owner, but you get the idea. Then, Google transitioned its default identification assistant to Circle to Search, emphasizing what was on your screen more, and it threw me for a loop. I struggled to adopt it in just the same way, and then the arrival of Apple Visual Intelligence made me wonder if I needed Google at all.