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ndarraytoday at 7:22 PM3 repliesview on HN

Do you want to know how many identical questions ChatGPT gets asked every week, recomputing its answer each time because people stopped sharing results? I don't, but I'm sure it far exceeds 3 billion. "How to center a div", "how to install this and that package", "what is this pop culture reference", "who is this famous person",...


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TiredOfLifetoday at 10:17 PM

I ask a question to ChatGPT and i get an answer.

I ask a question to google and i spend 10-100 times longer visiting multiple websites making multiple servers generate webpages wasting electricity and time reading them finding my answer, trying different solutions

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UltraSanetoday at 7:28 PM

OpenAI does cache the most frequent questions like this.

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busymom0today at 7:25 PM

Imagine if they used the stackoverflow model of "closed as dupe"