News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat?. Parent comment

Re:Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat? by bbor on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:59AM (#36327000)
Eh I really strongly suspect this “you can use an LLM instead of google, I.e. as a knowledge model” to be a short lived trend. I hope Reddit sees it the same way. It’s kinda like using better bike infrastructure for sick cyberpunk roller derbies; a nice unexpected use case, sure, but its not built for that and sooner-or-later the issues will become all too apparent

IMO, the future will be using LLMs with live search results - which of course will probably require a funding model better than the terrible Display Ads setup we have for such content now. So best of luck to Reddit on that front - I hope your ipo fails

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat? by vineyardmike on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:21PM (#36328259)
> the future will be using LLMs with live search results

N of 1, but I vastly prefer the Google Generative Results over chatGPT. Quality may not always be the same, but a “chat” seems like an awkward metaphor for finding info, and of course, chat GPT has no links to content when I’m worried about hallucinations.

I’m true google-search fashion, GenSearch has a lot less deep-in-the-weeds technical answers and will push you to simpler results. Eg. If you want to know what chemicals have a similar absorption properties to methane… you’re better off with ChatGPT or traditional search.

[ Parent | on HN ]