alt Hacker NewsIt is search if you ask it to produce a list of links.
It does well at filtering information for you.
Going to primary sources is required to verify what it says but it can reduce the leg work rather a lot.
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The issue as I see it is just straight copy/pasting its output. You want to use it as a search tool to give you pointers on things to look up and links to read? Great. Then use that as a basis to read the sources and write your own response. If you aren't familiar enough with the subject area to do that, then you also shouldn't be pasting LLM output on it.
Ask it to solve a tough Euler Math puzzle with the search button on and it just copies the answer from the web. Turn search off and it actually computes the answer. Funny how the search button is taken away though.
> It is search if you ask it to produce a list of links.
Unfortunately it can hallucinate those too. I've had ChatGPT cite countless nonexistent academic papers, complete with links that go nowhere.
> It is search if you ask it to produce a list of links.
Not in the example I mentioned. It can imagine the links, and the content of the links, and be very confident about it. It literally invented an obituary that didn't exist, gave me a link to a funeral home that 404'd, came up with "in-memoriam" references from regional newsletters that never contained her name. It's actually really scary how specifically fake it was.
I asked it to produce verbatim references from any sources and the links to them, and none of the text it produced could be searched with quotes on any search engine.