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by input_sh 1052 days ago
> We hope that this circus will eventually come to an end, and search engines will have to either improve their algorithms or people will lean more on solutions like ChatGPT, lessening their reliance on these engines.

Do they really think ChatGPT is gonna do any better at generating leads? The same ChatGPT that provides fuck all links to the outside web?

It's like they recognise one scam and jump head first straight into the next one.

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I mean one thing I can see ChatGPT work for is customer communication, both sales and support; it's one of those things that is difficult to scale, especially on online chat windows where people quickly lose interest. For small companies that don't have the people or the money to hire an external web support company it can be a solution.

But then, it'll probably be expensive anyway; they would have to train chatgpt on their own data, do a lot of practice conversations, review conversations and make adjustments, and of course take over an automated chat if it's not working.

Okay but that has absolutely nothing to do with either driving traffic to your site or generating leads you can follow upon.

If their problem is finding promising leads, I doubt they don't have enough resources for interacting with customers.