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by TheRoque 724 days ago
Well, it's really easy to see. When I you search on Google, and go on, say, stackoverflow or medium, you get a ton of context: - rank of the page - name of the website where it's posted - date of the post - context of the post (comments, replies...)

All this context refines your result, because you know what you interact with. ChatGPT obfuscates all this, and on top of that introduces hallucinations.

For a more explicit example when looking for a code snippet, I can ask ChatGPT to give me the answer, but I more often search for the answer in stackoverflow because I can see if the top answer is from 2016 and probably outdated, and I can see if the top answer has a lot of criticism or praises. chatGPT could just regurgitate the medium post of a junior with bad practices and you'd have no clue about that.