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Funnily enough, I see this as one of the biggest disadvantages of ChatGPT. I am used to searching the web and navigating results, and have developed a lot of he

Funnily enough, I see this as one of the biggest disadvantages of ChatGPT. I am used to searching the web and navigating results, and have developed a lot of heuristics for assessing the credibility of a page. ChatGPT flattens the true, not-true-but-maybe-helpful, and straight up time-wasting BS into the same confident patter. So I have to treat everything it says with equal scepticism.

theSuda 3y ago
I agree. I usually end up finding alternate methods or hints to look for a completely different approach (especially from stack overflow).
flangola7 3y ago
The time wasting SEO BS is all but non existent in my use. ChatGPT has nearly eliminated Google because if I want to find the best 10 films involving aliens in the 90s by obscure directors I get exactly that, instead of three million pages of trash.
- nottorp 3y ago
  > the best 10 films involving aliens in the 90s by obscure directors I get exactly that Actually you're probably getting someone's list of 10 best films that got copied to 1000 more sites and ended up training ChatGPT...
  - ozim 3y ago
    Still counts as a win I guess?
  - flangola7 3y ago
    I've asked very complicated contrived combinations that don't have any results on Google. GPT-4 still had no issue assembling the list.
deeviant 3y ago
Two Paths: 1. Build a skill set to navigate millions of pages of fluff SEO garbage and gain intuition of which sites are more likely to be credibility based on something akin to a internet dosing rod. 2. Build skill set to evaluate if a statement or claim is factually true. i.e. ChatGPT just told me something, how likely is it to be true. I know which skill set I would rather develop, obviously #2, as it's transferable to nearly every intellectual venture a human would consider, while #1 is not. Also, I feel the people that play the FUD campaign on GPT hallucinations just haven't used it much. The average quality of GPT answers, at least in programming, is far above the average hit on google, and the fact that I can interact with the answer and shape it to go in any direction I want or mix it match it with nearly any other concept on the spot, it's light years more valuable than the average google search. At this point, I would guess I only resort to google 10% of what I used to, and it's normally to attempt to find a specific website that has specific information I remember accessing before that I want to look up again.

theSuda 3y ago

I agree. I usually end up finding alternate methods or hints to look for a completely different approach (especially from stack overflow).

flangola7 3y ago

The time wasting SEO BS is all but non existent in my use. ChatGPT has nearly eliminated Google because if I want to find the best 10 films involving aliens in the 90s by obscure directors I get exactly that, instead of three million pages of trash.

nottorp 3y ago
> the best 10 films involving aliens in the 90s by obscure directors I get exactly that Actually you're probably getting someone's list of 10 best films that got copied to 1000 more sites and ended up training ChatGPT...
- ozim 3y ago
  Still counts as a win I guess?
- flangola7 3y ago
  I've asked very complicated contrived combinations that don't have any results on Google. GPT-4 still had no issue assembling the list.

deeviant 3y ago

Two Paths: 1. Build a skill set to navigate millions of pages of fluff SEO garbage and gain intuition of which sites are more likely to be credibility based on something akin to a internet dosing rod. 2. Build skill set to evaluate if a statement or claim is factually true. i.e. ChatGPT just told me something, how likely is it to be true. I know which skill set I would rather develop, obviously #2, as it's transferable to nearly every intellectual venture a human would consider, while #1 is not. Also, I feel the people that play the FUD campaign on GPT hallucinations just haven't used it much. The average quality of GPT answers, at least in programming, is far above the average hit on google, and the fact that I can interact with the answer and shape it to go in any direction I want or mix it match it with nearly any other concept on the spot, it's light years more valuable than the average google search. At this point, I would guess I only resort to google 10% of what I used to, and it's normally to attempt to find a specific website that has specific information I remember accessing before that I want to look up again.