Comment by Agraillo

> Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it

The story is an impressive piece, but I think as with many of us, it's a personal projection of expectations on results. One example from my experience. In the book "Jim Carter - Sky Spy, Memoirs of a U-2 Pilot" there was an interesting story about the moment when U-2 was used for capturing the photo of a big area at the Pacific to save the life of a lost seaman. The story was very interesting and I always wanted to know more, technical details, people involvement etc. Searching with Google ten years ago didn't help, I rephrased the names, changed the date (used even the range operator) to no avail. And recently I asked several LLM-based bots about it. You can guess it. They ignored my constrains at best and hallucinate at worst. One even invented a mixed reality story when Francis Gary Powers actually flew not one but with a co-pilot and the latter ended up in the Pacific and was saved. Very funny, but I wasn't impressed. But if one of them scraped the far corners of web discussion boards and saved a first-person account of someone who took part in it and gave it to me, I would be really impressed.