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Same reason people still read books. It's less popular than it used to be, but still very relevant.

Also the same reason people still hang out in real life even though online game, chat services, and social media exist.

These are tools, and some people get too into the tools...but at the end of the day there's a time and a place for them.

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I feel like this misses the thought I was having. It's more if google gets replaced with chat, and people just ask questions and get answers. The answers come from the content you created, but the people asking don't know that; they'll never visit your page, see what else you did; you don't really exist.

And I do think some formats don't lend themselves to just asking a chatbot, especially if you don't know enough to formulate the question to ask. Book are a good example since you read them to learn things you don't know yet (in theory)

I'm drawing parallels to what you are saying. I'm saying that just because a technology is disruptive doesn't mean it has to completely obliterate the thing that came before it. The internet didn't kill books and social media didn't kill real life interaction.

Also, why is the assumption that AI can't cite sources? Isn't that what Bing already does?

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