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Can somebody explain to me the existential threat AI is posing to the search business? I am familiar with ChatGPT composing reasonable sounding answers to prom
by warcher 4y ago
Can somebody explain to me the existential threat AI is posing to the search business?
I am familiar with ChatGPT composing reasonable sounding answers to prompts. I get that I could type in "what's the best vacuum cleaner under $500?" or something like that, and both Google and ChatGPT could generate an answer for me.
But I want the best, most accurate answer, not a set of banalities that a neural network has composed to convincingly pass the sniff test. I actually care about the content being right, or as close to right as possible.
I admit freely that I'm clearly missing some possibilities here. Can anyone fill me in?
- evanmoran 4y agoI'll give it go – Essentially the quality of the average website is declining due to poor incentives such as SEO optimization and content creation farms. Meanwhile, language models like ChatGPT are becoming more advanced. This presents a problem for Google, as ChatGPT will over time become more likely to provide accurate answers than a website search. Additionally, many websites will begin using ChatGPT to generate large amounts of content, making search even worse and more efficient to ask ChatGPT directly.
- ripe 4y agoBut doesn't ChatGPT consume the same Internet as Google does? Including junk websites? The current release of ChatGPT is just old and out of date. Google could use the same criteria as ChatGPT to filter the input. Then why would search be any worse?