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AI as a search engine is terrible.
Because if you treat it as such, it will just look at the first result, which is usually wrong or has incomplete info.
If you give the AI a source document, then it is amazing as a search engine. But if the source doc is the entire internet.... its fucking bad.
Shit quality in, shit quality out. And we/corporations have made the internet abundant of shit.
just for clarity, some kind of learning algorithms have been used in web searches prior to this generative AI boom. I know for a fact that google used an AI to rank pages for its search before even gpt was a thing.
But you're totally right. generative models shouldn't be used as search engines.