Technology

Great question, I wish I knew. I know when I'm on a deep dive I will hit the links as there is other information or other articles the scrapped site has.

I mean just about every metric I've seen suggests most websites that see an increase in scraping see a decrease in actual human visitors. I doubt there's much distinction between chat and search users - the goal of these services is to drop click-through rates.

I do for things where I want to be accurate, but sometimes it seems like I’m the only one

On the other hand I advised my teen to buy the wrong battery because I didn’t click into the results for “what battery do i need to replace in my Subaru key?”

I don't know how many do, but they're fools if they don't.

You'd think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I've found the information straight up wasn't there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page's content.

But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.