You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore

3 years ago by rosenjcb to c/technology

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gamebuster 2 points 3 years ago

Google is just working hard to become less useful every day. I tend to use ChatGPT a lot instead of Google.

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T156 30 points 3 years ago

That seems rather risky, considering that they don't really check that they output accurate information, and OpenAI specifically recommends against using it for that due to the possibility of their GPT models outputting falsehoods as fact.

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queermunist -8 points 3 years ago

As opposed to Google searching manually, which always has accurate outputs and never outputs falsehoods as fact. 🙂

As long as you double check the source of an answer I don't see an issue.

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AdlachGyfiawn 18 points 3 years ago

ChatGPT is not a search engine, it's a language model. It does not provide correct answers, it imitates what correct answers sound like.

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UncommentedCode 16 points 3 years ago

The issue with LLMs that I have is that while they are great at certain tasks, they are bad at anything, let's call it factual, due to their nature.

I can for example use it to quickly draft up a email or a piece of python code, and I can immediately see whether or not the response it generated is actually what I want.

If I go ask it what the hottest day in a given country was or ask it to explain something, I have absolutely no idea whether it's bullshit or not and I will have to double check it anways.

I think the learning curve with LLMs as a tool is to be able to know when to use it and when to rely on other sources instead.

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