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ChatGPT and others have some sort of attribution, where they link to the original webpage. How or when they decide to attribute is unclear. But websites are starting to pay attention to GEO (generative engine optimization) so that their brand isn’t entirely ignored by ChatGPT and others.

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I do agree that LLM-as-a-search is going to likely become more and more prevalent as inference gets cheaper and faster, and people don't too much care about 'minor' hallucinations.

What I don't see however is any way this new way of searching will give back. There is some handwaving argument about links, however the entire value prop of an llm is you DON'T need to go to the source content.

could have just left it as SEO and changed the S to "Slop"

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