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by ragequitta 1079 days ago
I very rarely use google anymore, as it's a worse bullshit machine. I just ask chatgpt and tell it to give me sources. I also never use cookbooks anymore, as it's much more interesting to have a chat about what I can make with the ingredients in my fridge. It's also absolutely fantastic at making meal plans (tell it restrictions like lactose, protein you want per day, calories per day, and any other preferences you have) and workout plans (tell it the equipment you have in your house and your goals). If you're wanting it to code the next big thing by itself it probably won't do it properly, but for everyday things it's a very useful assistant. More useful than anything else out there by far.
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Try using Perplexity.AI [no affiliation], which automatically provides a citation for every sentence it produces. Typical paragraph will have five citations.

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Is it good though?
As with many of these organization-controlled LLMs: it used to be a whole-lot-more capable, pre- "as a large language model, I cannot..."