[ericd]

People don’t remember the sources that formed their opinions, it’s just baked into the structure of their brain after reading, same for the model.

[stevesearer]

With search engines, it does feel like there was is a more clear trade of scraping access in exchange for web traffic.

With ChatGPT the traffic benefit isn’t there, so it feels like it isn’t a fair trade.

Google adding the context and data to their search results page also started blurring this trade making it unnecessary to click to the site the info was cleaned from.

[williamcotton]

How does someone site a source when they are using GPT to convert a box score into an entertaining paragraph about a baseball game? Or to convert a natural language command into a JSON format ready for downstream processing?

[ericd]

Right, it’s a gestalt from a huge set of sources. It’s not copying single text sources verbatim into your output.