• northendtrooper@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I’m finding that LLMs are doing a better job for searching for new things. If I have a question, instead of going to google or bing I’ll goto chatGPT and ask some of that nature with some sources for further reading.

    Never would I think that I would need to use AI to answer simple search and yet here we are because the sole purpose of a search engine doesn’t really exist anymore.

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      11 months ago

      The problem is, you can’t trust ChatGPT to not lie to you.

      And since generative AI is now being used all over the place, you just can’t trust anything unless you know damn well that a human entered the info, and then that’s a coin flip.

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        11 months ago

        The newer ones search the internet and generate from the results not their training and provide sources.

        So that’s not such a worry now.

        Anyone who used ChatGPT for information and not text generation was always using it wrong.

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          11 months ago

          Except people are using LLM to generate web pages on something to get clicks. Which means LLM’s are training off of information generated by other LLM’s. It’s an ouroboros of fake information.

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            11 months ago

            But again if you use LLMs ability to understand and generate text via a search engine that doesn’t matter.

            LLMs are not supposed to give factual answers. That’s not their purpose at all.

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      11 months ago

      I hear it’ll be $20 a month soon for the privilege of a glorified search engine distilled into a chatbot.

      Edit: why the downvotes? I’m just relaying what Microsoft through OpenAI will charge.

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          11 months ago

          If the data was gathered using the legal loophole of being for research purposes, I’m not sure anyone should have exclusive rights of it to begin with… Not sure if that answers the question

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      11 months ago

      Perplexity is great for this. It gives like 5 links in addition to the text answer so it is imo the best of both worlds.