• Kichae@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Using chatgpt for searches

    I cannot stress this enough: LLMs are not, have never been, and quite likely never will be search engines. You may as well ask your a auto-complete questions.

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      8 months ago

      But LLM can and do use search engines and create summary of the search with references to actual pages, where they found this information. ChatGPT saves tons of time by doing search for you. Want to double check? Go and click the reference. But so far it was very reliable in my experience.

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      8 months ago

      They are better than search engines. I can ask anything and get a good answer in a second, without having to search the web.

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        8 months ago

        Thing is you don’t know if the answer is good. The answer looks good, yes, but how could you tell if ChatGPT just pulled the thing you looked for out of it’s digital behind?

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          8 months ago

          Exactly, without knowing the source(s) you can’t determine the quality of the answer. Although in saying that, I imagine people who use ChatGPT as a search engine might also not be super critical of search results.

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        8 months ago

        This is a dangerous attitude. You’re blindly trusting everything the LLM says. You will be susceptible to misinformation.

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          8 months ago

          I mainly use it for finding tech related things, like helping with code and such.

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            8 months ago

            I figured, but this thread wasn’t specifically about helping with code. It was about replacing search engines. Common uses of search engines include finding information about ongoing events, e.g. the COVID pandemic or an upcoming election. Your comment implied that you thought this information is better obtained from ChatGPT than from Google.

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              7 months ago

              Well I use Kagi but sure, for ongoing events a search engine is the only way currently since chat gpt won’t have the latest events. :)

              I expect that to change though, and we will all use chat bots instead of search engines in the future.