> We no longer have Google, effectively

Veering offtopic a bit... Google lost its (search) way years ago. See the "The Man who Killed Google Search" [1], and the room they left for alternatives like DuckDuckGo.

At work, we have full access to Claude, and I find that I now use that instead of doing a search. Sure it's not 100% reliable, but neither is search anyhow, and at least I save time from sifting through a dozen crappy content farms.

[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

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lietuvis 2 hours ago | parent [-]

When you use a search engine, you can evalute the "trustness" of the source (webpage), this essentially disappears when using a chatbot

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nly 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Only if you're dumb about it. Asking for source links is one thing I do all the time, and chatgpt gives citations by default.

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flexagoon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What's the benefit of using a chatbot if you still have to go and read all of it's sources on your own?

	▲	tkocmathla an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The same, I suppose, as using Wikipedia to get an overview of a topic, a surface understanding, before following the citations to dig deeper and fully validate the summary.