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What a lot of these journalists don't realize is ai tools are the internet funnels of the future. People use ChatGPT not Google to source info. The way you get results is begging these tools to search for specific bits of info in order to get visibility.

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I've got a hard time believing most folks are clicking on the sources that LLM chatbots sometimes provide with their answers. Especially because they've been hard sold on the idea that AI chatbots are as smart as the smartest people on the planet. They're likely just going to do what normal folks do when smart people answer questions i.e. assume they're right and move on.

I do. I treat ChatGPT output the same as Wikipedia content. I find what I am looking for then immediately open the source to confirm. I would never in a million years take ChatGPT output or Wikipedia content and blindly reference it without doing my due diligence.

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