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The fear of investors and, to some extent, Google, is that LLMs will supplant traditional search and by the time enough people are catching on to affect metrics
by emodendroket 4y ago
The fear of investors and, to some extent, Google, is that LLMs will supplant traditional search and by the time enough people are catching on to affect metrics the momentum will be too great to stop. My experience with LLMs has not led me to believe that is all that likely but opinions differ there.
- andy_ppp 4y agoWe need search to be able to fact check the LLMs, but this might become extremely difficult once all the content is written by them…
- wolpoli 4y agoJust like how it is hard to fact-check Wikipedia now that it's used a reference. A thought came to me - perhaps it's Wikipedia that should be worried that it'll be supplanted by LLMs.
- jrmg 4y ago[citation needed]
- jamilton 4y agoThe phenomenon they're referring to is when something spurious is posted on Wikipedia with no or poor citations, then used as the source for a "reputable" article (without citations), then the article is cited by Wikipedia, making the spurious information look more trustworthy.
- callalex 4y ago1) that hardly ever happens, it hasn’t caused any widespread issues in the decades Wikipedia has existed. 2) All sources are cited so they can be easily verified by the reader.
- NavinF 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...
- two_handfuls 4y agoThe user experience with ChatGPT is pretty good. No ads, no spam results. There are downsides too of course: the hallucinations, and the way the ChatGPT site wants me to log back on now and then. I was very happy with Google but recently on my iPhone the Google website started nagging me to log in every time I do a search. This is a poor experience, add to that the ad results that have gotten harder and harder over time to distinguish from real results.
- emodendroket 4y agoI’ve found it amusing but haven’t gotten that much practical use out of it. I still make multiple Google searches every day.