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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by pclmulqdq on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:01AM (#38113622)
Bad prompts for google can have exactly the same words as good prompts for ChatGPT. The original commenter probably uses both of them at least 10 times a day, so it's not unreasonable to assume that they will run into those examples.
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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by lolinder on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:00AM (#38114425)
I would typically assume that a three word prompt like that is better for Google than it is for ChatGPT. Google is supposed to be good at keyword search, and ChatGPT is designed for longer prompts.
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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by pclmulqdq on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:53AM (#38115304)
That means that your prior assumptions about Google are wrong. Google does a substantial amount of "semantic understanding" before doing a search. It is no longer a keyword matching tool - that stopped being the case a long time ago.

Also, ChatGPT is usually really bad with long prompts when I use it, and is often kind of close when I give it a short prompt. I assume part of this effect is psychological though, where you expect the short prompt to have worse results.

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