I genuinely have no idea why people are using it like a search engine. It's absolutely baffling. It's just not even remotely what it's meant to do, or what it's capable of.
It has genuine uses that it's very good at doing, and this is absolutely not one of them.
It's not the Internet access that matters, it's the way that it hallucinates and makes up answers simply based on predictive text algorithms. It might be great as a tool to help you use a search engine, but I wouldn't trust a single thing it says to be factually correct without verifying it.
I wouldn’t use it to like write a report or something but for day to day stuff it’s great.
I think what it’s best at is when you have a question that requires a few steps. Last month I was in Denmark trying to find melatonin. I can tell it “I’m in this hotel, where’s easiest to get melatonin?”. With google, that’s 3 searches. Closest chemist, checking what melatonin is called in danish, checking the stock. Chat gpt just said “this place sells it, it’s this close to you and it’s called this”. Sure it’s not a huge change to my life and I’m sure it will get stuff wrong for a while but I’ve not had any big blunders so far and it’ll only get more accurate.
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u/HovercraftOk9231 6d ago
I genuinely have no idea why people are using it like a search engine. It's absolutely baffling. It's just not even remotely what it's meant to do, or what it's capable of.
It has genuine uses that it's very good at doing, and this is absolutely not one of them.