Looking to hear your guys’ thoughts on this, and hopefully share points in a more sophisticated manner than I can describe. (also, I hope this is an appropriate place to post?)
I have ran into this discussion a few times across the fediverse, but I can’t for the life of my find those threads and comments lol
I believe that a non-corporate owned platform with user-generated information is most optimal, like wikipedia. I don’t know the technicalities, but I feel like AI can’t replace answers from human experiences - humans who are enthusiasts and care about helping each other and not making money
I don’t know much about this topic, but I’m curious if you guys have actual real answers! Thread-based services like this and stack overflow (?) vs chatgpt vs bing vs google, etc.
The worst part about ai as a search engine is that it doesn’t (or at least can’t reliably) give you the original source. It can tell you lots of stuff but there’s no link to a news article or wiki page where it got it from. A traditional search engine can give you unreliable results, but at least you can look at them yourself and decide if they’re reliable or not. An AI search engine has you just take what it says at face value, true or not.
That recent instance where lawyers used AI to write their defence is a great example of the problem. It even included “citations” and summaries of those “citations”. Except they were completely made up. And then when asked for the source, it made up the entire source.
If you read everything it cites (retrieving it from an independently verified source) in its entirety (to make sure it exists and the summary is accurate) then it can still be helpful, but at that point it’s probably easier not to use it in the first place.