Replacing Google search, with all of its disgusting warts, with OpenAI's chatbot is a dystopian shitscape that I want no part in.

ChatGPT has no citations.

Depends what you use it for.

> ChatGPT has no citations.

I use three programming languages every day, and lookup syntax details often

Using Google (any search engine) returns acres of SEO driven garbage and astro turf

Chat GPT has been a huge boon, essentially no B.S.

No need for citations, the compiler keeps them honest.

I used Bing search, via Skype for a while (it has been degraded recently IMO) it read web pages for me, summerised them, and returned links with it

So I think LLM mediated search is a definite possibility for disrupting the enshitification of Internet search

> No need for citations, the compiler keeps them honest.

But in ldj[...]s preferred future Google is dead and when they are and Microsofts AI only gives you the answers and not the sources they can just keep cranking the prices and there is nothing one can do since you'll never know were they got it.

I don't think replacing one problem with a slightly different problem beholden to the same interests in the end solves anything.

For most of what I use Google for, OpenAI would not be in any way helpful.

I enjoy searching for opinion/editorial articles on random/obscure topics. I enjoy finding when a niche sport I enjoy gets coverage in mainstream newspapers/broadcasters.

It could be the cause why Google tries to monetize fast and now, at the expense of extremely fast enshitification.