[danpalmer]

I have seen that many times here on HN: "I don't know but I stuck this in CrapGPT and this is what it said...".

I would encourage anyone considering a reply like this to ask themselves what value they have brought to the table over the OP using AI themselves.

[wolvoleo]

Yeah as if someone wouldn't have done that if they wanted to. Some people still think AI is some novelty people don't know about.

[danpalmer]

This did happen before, and still does to some extent, with people googling and giving the answer. "Let me Google that for you" lmgtfy.com was even a thing, again lacking any introspection about why someone might be asking instead of googling.

[wolvoleo]

I don't know why you were deadvoted, it's a good point.

Though I feel that especially in the latest decade Google was a terrible source for finding things like the best product for usecase xyz and other recommendations. Because not only was the internet full of SEO clickbait fake comparison sites, but Google promoted the fake ones because they paid for it. They deeply undermined their own credibility. It was pretty much impossible to find real info with all the fake clickbait stuff around. Not to mention that even legit news outlets do a lot of paid "advertorials" these days.

I'm sure this will happen with AI too but with stuff like deep research I feel like I get better answers than Google has given me for years. Despite hallucination.