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@deadbeef79000 You... you know these things can make up their sources, right? LLMs are notorious for making sh!t up, and it's gotten worse in later models with seemingly little the companies running this tech can do because it's more of a feature than a bug of LLMs.
They weren't made to be search engines, they're not, they're as I said, probabilistic mimicry machines. When you use it like a search engine, you're only querying its database of scraped stuff with a good chance it'll pull something out of its ass to try and give you the answer you want to hear, not actually searching the internet. These models aren't built to be accurate, they're built to be plausible. They generate what the algorithm deems what you want to hear, not the truth.
So not only are you using a machine as a search engine that was not built to be one and can generate random bullsh!t, you're also consuming a lot more energy and power to do so.
The only reason people are trying to use LLMs is as you said, to bypass Google's deterioration (or at least one of its many factors of deterioration), which is an issue that's only cropped up in the last few years. If Google didn't enshittify, we wouldn't be in this mess, and using LLMs is not going to fix that, especially as these LLMs inevitably enshittify themselves since LLMs are super unprofitable.
Yes, it means I can go to the sources.
Or at least, the overview is useful for finding terms to refine the search.
I'm ignoring the rest of your wall of text, because you're first sentence was condescending.
@deadbeef79000 Sounds like a you problem, buddy.
Yep. It's definitely a you problem.
@deadbeef79000 Yep, thinking you sound smart by parroting what I said totally does not make you look like a smug asshole, buddy.
I know you are, i said you are, but what am I?
@deadbeef79000 Yep. Totally helping your case by acting like a child who can't participate in a discussion.
Your mother.
@deadbeef79000 Like, what are you hoping to achieve? All you did was make yourself look like an unreasonable, childish asshole. Like, if that's what you wanted, congrats, you did it.