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With what I search (API info), Google makes errors almost 0% of the time. I don't actually know how many errors ChatGPT makes, however a silent error could lead to hours of debugging, so I'd rather just use Google.

I do know that when I have complicated questions where Google doesn't really help, ChatGPT also seems to not help: it either produces something false, or a non-answer

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I had ChatGPT hallucinate an entire iOS API, complete with docs, sdk version, and URL on apple's website. All of it fake news.

First time I've seen "fake news" refer to not-news.

(If it's faking an OS, perhaps "fake GNUs"?)

For me, when searching for API info, Google does sometimes fail by giving me links to discussions about obsolete versions. I've not quantified that as a percentage.

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