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Nah. I'm perfectly conscious of the fact that ChatGPT can't be trusted with searches. Google is still my daily driver.


My ChatGPT “searches the web” and provides URL of the sources as well.


True, but that doesn't mitigate the problem I have with using LLMs as a search engine replacement. The issue I have is that LLMs "predigest" things and present you with the sources that are relevant to its response.

However, it still blinds you to the larger picture. Providing supporting sources is all well and good, but doesn't help you with the larger view. I want the larger view.


I find the exact opposite, LLMs are much better in giving larger views, google will just spit out whatever it matches with no concept of a larger view and no way to ask google to broaden it's search around a concept.


Well, if you're comparing LLMs to Google, you may be right. I find Google to be borderline worthless. But compared to other search engines, I find LLM responses to be very lacking and restrictive.




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