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Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time by Retric on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:22PM (#34645526)
The problem is needing to verify accuracy makes it a really bad search engine replacement. A good con artist is generally truthful, they just know how to seem truthful even when they lie which exactly the issue with trusting ChatGPT etc. You can’t tell if the model is telling bullshit unless you already know the truth.

This doesn’t make them useless in general, just a poor fit if you can’t easily fact check the results.

Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time by 2devnull on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:37PM (#34646686)
Good point. I don’t think they will be a good search engine replacement, but maybe a powerful supplement for some users. And honestly with SEO and other issues even search engines can be manipulated in ways that an average user might have difficulty detecting.
Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time by je42 on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:48PM (#34646808)
Easy, you use a second source and double check.

In google you would go to another search result.

For ChatGPT you actually need to verify via Google or actually try it when it is code.

Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time by Retric on Friday February 03, 2023 @04:00PM (#34647640)
What’s the point of using ChatGPT when searching if you still need to verify the information through another search?