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> ChatGPT gets tripped up in some edge conditions.

No. ChatGPT has no idea of the truth value of anything it produces. That's fine for writing fiction, but it's not an "edge condition" when searching for actual information.

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I am curious if search engine is the same? It has little idea of truth value of what it produces, other than prioritizing known and well-referenced resources.

I'd love for you to explain how a search engine does have any idea of truth.

It refers to real web pages, so it's not making up results the way that ChatGPT does. The value of those web pages is assessed using an algorithm like PageRank.

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