Comment by dpoloncsak
3 hours ago
You prefer outdated-by-atleast-a-year data instead of the freshly scraped and ranked Google Search results?
GPT 5 was publicly released in August last year. That data has to be atleast a year old, right?
If I'm comparing Macbook Neo to a Chromebook, it's impossible for the Neo to show up in the training data, and has to use RAG (This is assuming the data is atleast a year old. Seems like OAI isn't doing fresh runs for 5.1, 5.2, etc. but I'm unsure if that's been officially disclosed)
Not everything good or necessary was released in the past two years.
As an example interaction, recently I sent ChatGPT a picture of my soldering station and say I'm having trouble with it being slow to melt and it says "well these are your upgrade options but really all you need is a chunkier tip with more thermal mass, he's a link to a tip set you could try" but then the link is dead and I'm able to google my own similar set and just buy it (it worked great).
Another one was wanting a U-shaped bracket to mount a riser on my desk, and the only ones I could find at the building supply store are L-shaped. I asked Chat about this and it said it's just too niche of an item to be mass produced but suggested I buy from someone doing semi-custom fabrication on etsy. Sure enough... another dead link, but I google it and find the store, and order.
Two cases where I didn't really know what I actually wanted/needed, and Chat successfully filled the gap with information I was able to independently verify afterward, but also Chat missed out on the opportunity to get a referral fee out of my eventual spend.