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649 sats \ 3 comments \ @Turnspit_Dog 3 Feb tech

I dunno. I have some mixed feelings on this.

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362 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 3 Feb

ChatGPT is better than search in some ways. Good enough that I go to it for certain kinds of queries (mainly programming snippets and general subject-based inquiry). Prefer to keep search and LLMs separate for now, but glad that others are experimenting.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3 Feb

Have you used it much?

IME AI is not better at these kinds of tasks but it is different. I think perplexity is a little overindexed on AI summaries and I would prefer more priority given to sources.

352 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog OP 3 Feb

Not enough to form any opinion. I am not ready to replace my other search engines yet.

I would prefer more priority given to sources.

100% percent.

I'm just more concerned with what it was trained with, any biases, hallucinations, etc... But you know that AI powered search is here to stay. If I need any AI, I'll just stick with ChatGPT for the time being. Mainly since it is better than Stackoverflow when searching for something. :)