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Search isn't getting replaced by LLMs. Hallucination is antithetical to search. But I am quite optimistic of the application of LLMs in other products like Off

• mcphage 4y ago
  > Search isn't getting replaced by LLMs. It's possible that Google's search quality, which has already been trending down, completely nosedives when the internet gets filled to the brim with hallucinations.
• prepend 4y ago
  I’m not sure about that. I was recently talking about the 1918 flu with colleagues and we were trying to figure out the mortality rate. I googled for a few minutes and there were multiple references, and ads, and call out boxes but the mortality rate wasn’t clear. I asked chatgpt and in a single response it gave me the metric I was looking for and citations for me to check. It was a much better experience. I’ve also found I don’t need to google for programming questions as much and have fewer visits to stackoverflow. I don’t know if it’s going to kill search entirely, but it’s definitely a bad thing for search.
  • mcphage 4y ago
    > it gave me the metric I was looking for and citations for me to check Did you check the citations—that they existed, and said what ChatGPT claimed? It knows how to properly report metrics and format citations, but there's no guarantee that those metrics or citations are real, just because they're properly formatted.