Ask HN: Is Google Afraid of ChatGPT?

No, I don't think they are. They have enough internal smarts to replicate, and their core business has a huge buttress. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if Google makes a LOT of noise about erroneous ChatGPT results: if you could magnify a competitor mistake then why not?

Scared is an odd concept. A reaction from Google does not have to mean they are scared: if overall market and traffic size increases, even declining market share can be a relative measure against total revenue growth (I do expect some revenue fall from search but not necessarily because of ChatGPT. The worldwide economy is flat: people buy less, and so search less for things which cost money to acquire which is what paid search placement depends on for revenue)

After reading this article and the one in which Microsoft is enhancing Bing with ChatGPT, do you think Google is scared of ChatGPT?