<story><title>AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search</title><url>https://rachsmith.com/i-want-good-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nico</author><text>Everyday I’m using Google search less and less, while using ChatGPT more and more.&lt;p&gt;It’s pretty rare that I want to find a website or document. Most of the times I want an answer or a solution, and ChatGPT is so much better at that than google.&lt;p&gt;The ChatGPT user-experience is mind-blowing, but when you start using their API and see, partly, how the sausage is made, you realize that the context-awareness is just a very well done illusion. But that’s exactly where the magic of the experience is, and what gives ChatGPT it’s edge.&lt;p&gt;Google should just launch a “chatux” version of their search.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>The Seo spam has already made it hard to find what you want on google. Seo spam + ai is going to be a dumpster fire. Whoever solves this problem will probably get to be the new google&lt;p&gt;Can’t wait to see how this affects hn comments over the next 5 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Does ChatGPT know things like part numbers for mid-80s ICs by Japanese manufacturers?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s what I use search for. Unfortunately Google is getting worse at those queries, but I doubt AI is going to be better.&lt;p&gt;Beware of wanting &amp;quot;answers&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;solutions&amp;quot; --- that&amp;#x27;s a slippery slope towards complacency and loss of agency, replaced by corporate subservience. Classic example: instead of finding a service manual or discussions on repairing something, AI may try to convince you to buy a new one.</text></comment>
<story><title>AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search</title><url>https://rachsmith.com/i-want-good-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nico</author><text>Everyday I’m using Google search less and less, while using ChatGPT more and more.&lt;p&gt;It’s pretty rare that I want to find a website or document. Most of the times I want an answer or a solution, and ChatGPT is so much better at that than google.&lt;p&gt;The ChatGPT user-experience is mind-blowing, but when you start using their API and see, partly, how the sausage is made, you realize that the context-awareness is just a very well done illusion. But that’s exactly where the magic of the experience is, and what gives ChatGPT it’s edge.&lt;p&gt;Google should just launch a “chatux” version of their search.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>The Seo spam has already made it hard to find what you want on google. Seo spam + ai is going to be a dumpster fire. Whoever solves this problem will probably get to be the new google&lt;p&gt;Can’t wait to see how this affects hn comments over the next 5 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sangnoir</author><text>&amp;gt; Everyday I’m using Google search less and less, while using ChatGPT more and more.&lt;p&gt;Wasn&amp;#x27;t ChatGPT3 trained on web content with a cutoff of 2021? Future ChatGPT versions will likely be trained on data tainted by AI-generated fluff, and will face the same challenges Google is facing with today&amp;#x27;s web content.</text></comment>