[schroeding]

I don't like the idea of telling people (even smugly at worst, if it's used the way LMGTFY was, and as the tagline[1] implies) to just ask ChatGPT instead of humans.

LMGTFY returned human results that weren't SEO rubbish at the time for the most part, which you could classify yourself (or by others) as trustworthy or not. ChatGPT itself still sometimes hallucinates on pretty basic information and other users don't get exactly the same result as you.

[1] "Someone else asked ChatGPT for you. Appreciate it."

[nomel]

If you don’t know that the google search or llm will respond with what will help them, then it’s directly against the purpose these exist for: the questioner put zero effort for a trivial answer, and you know that.

[rsynnott]

> If you don’t know that the google search or llm will respond with what will help them

More or less by definition, you cannot know what the LLM will say.

[nomel]

To be fair, if you send someone a LMGTFY link, there's a very high chance the top few results will be LLM generated, but with some outdated model.