I find searching chatgpt.com and asking for sources, then visiting them, works much better than Google to find niche topics
replyEvery year I ask the latest version of Chat GPT a basic facts question about rugby results. It almost always gets it wrong - even when it does web search and cites sources. Wrong scores, hallucinated matches, wrong locations - just gob smacking amounts of wrongness.
replyThe latest "Thinking" version gets it reliably right but spent about 3 minutes coming up with the answer that 10 seconds of googling answers.
So I don't believe we are currently in a situation where LLMs are an effective replacement for search engines.
yep google ai results are old too.
replyWho is revolted? I use the AI Google results every day when asking for specific questions, I rarely visit the webpages before anymore. Also Google already injects ads into conversations in the form of Google Shopping affiliate links.
reply>I rarely visit the webpages before anymore.
replyAnd what do you think this'll do for future LLM models that need to train on new content if web page traffic collapses?
I understand the concern but it's frankly not my problem as a user, that is for the authors and corporations to figure out. No one would (or should) blame car buyers for putting horse and buggies out of business, they're merely participating in the market as a consumer not the producer.
replyThey won't figure it out. It's the tragedy of the commons.
replyThen that is how it will be, it's a self correcting problem in that if they don't figure it out, their models won't continue improving.
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