[anonytrary]

1. Does Google inform you that you have asked a bad or unproductive question? 2. Does Google guarantee the links it provides you with contain high quality and relevant information? 3. Does Google ensure that the #1 link contains the correct answer?

I think we are forgetting that Google suffers from these problems too. A human who asks bad questions will continue to ask bad questions. AI should in general be trained to do what the human wants. If the human wants something stupid, that's on the human. Google also isn't guaranteed to find the right information you're looking for, especially if it is on an obscure topic or if the query is highly overloaded or being taken over by current trends.

[noitpmeder]

The crucial difference is that the Google search results page, by definition of it's function, cites every source.

GPT vomits up word soup. How should you expect to verify every factoid contained? As others have pointed out: if you ask GPT to cite its sources it will very happily, and authoritatively, spit back articles and authors that do not exist.