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kristianp on April 19, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype

It's not a better search engine, it's qualitatively different to search. An LLM compose its answers based on what you ask it. Search returns pre-existing texts to you.

lgrapenthin on April 19, 2025 [–]

If search was only about finding existing texts, LLMs would be qualitatively worse, as they frequently misquote or even invent non existing sources.

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