> we’ve come to assume that what we get from a Google or Wikipedia article must be true This is getting old fast. Google [search] does not produce articles, no

> we’ve come to assume that what we get from a Google or Wikipedia article must be true This is getting old fast. Google [search] does not produce articles, nor does it produce answers, exactly. It's partly to blame for the confusion, certainly, but still: Google Search returns search results, and in some cases, snippets of text taken from the pages in the search results. Google Search does not produce "articles", or "answers", or any kind of speech, or linguistic construction. What appears on the Google SERP has not been authored by Google. And that's true of course of all search engines. ChatGPT is different. While what it says is the result of a compilation of words found on the web, it speaks in its own name, in the first person, and at least pretends to produce original discourse. And when it makes stuff up and produces imaginary science papers as reference, or non-existing functions in code, it is behaving dangerously.