[Nathanba]

the thing is.. ChatGPT doesn't have to compete with perfectly correct information because the information you search for on Google is often wrong(=SEO spam) too and you have to sift through a lot of garbage or misleading links there too. Sometimes literally, because you get a forum link with a bunch of people saying wrong things and then finally someone says the answer. That's similar to what you have to do on ChatGPT to doublecheck or ask a follow up questions or read more or treat a piece of information with a dose of healthy doubt. Both ChatGPT/Google are very useful and they both produce imperfect results and they both require some human thought.

[marstall]

interesting point about SEO. Does ChatGPT somehow filter out SEO content? Is it rather selective about the domains it crawls? Because Google could certainly turn that switch too - but then it would lose its comprehensiveness ...