AFAICT ChatGPT is mostly useless and can't be trusted to answer questions accurately. So no, mostly all search engines. To be honesty I'm surprised anybody uses it for anything other than trivial uses.
Are you using a paid version? Do you use web-search? And have you tried alternatives like Claude?
I've mostly switched to using Claude these days, with MCPs for websearch and fetching specific remote or local files. It answers questions generally very accurately (from the source documents it identifies) and includes citations.
I've found that people that haven't really tried the latest models, and just rely on whatever knowledge is in the model training are really missing out on the potential power. GPT4o+ and equivalent models really changed the game. And using tools to do a search, or pull in your code, or run a db query or whatever enables them to either synthesize information or generate context relevant material. Not perfect for everything, but much better than a year ago, or what people are doing with the free systems.
It's an interesting business model to give a version that everyone says is awful to people just trying it out, and locking the actually useful version behind a paywall, so anyone who doesn't want to immediately give money gets a bad experience...
Search engines aren't accurate either, they show you 10,000+ pages for your search query. You probably weren't looking for 10,000 answers. The problem is, they can't read your mind. ChatGPT can show you results you want, just like search engines can, you just may have to tweak your query.
The last thing I searched for was about the lady who sunk the New Zealand Naval vessel. It told me she was a captain in the United States Navy. I said that was absolutely not true and it told me of course you are correct, she is from the Australian Navy, and nothing I could say could convince it otherwise.
If it can't manage one small fact on something that was covered quite a bit in the previous month, then it is worse than useless. At the very least it should say I don't know. It reminds me of that one guy we all know that does nothing but make stuff up when talking about stuff outside of their wheel house. Never backs down, never learns anything, and ultimately dumped from the relationship.
jacobr1|10 months ago
I've mostly switched to using Claude these days, with MCPs for websearch and fetching specific remote or local files. It answers questions generally very accurately (from the source documents it identifies) and includes citations.
I've found that people that haven't really tried the latest models, and just rely on whatever knowledge is in the model training are really missing out on the potential power. GPT4o+ and equivalent models really changed the game. And using tools to do a search, or pull in your code, or run a db query or whatever enables them to either synthesize information or generate context relevant material. Not perfect for everything, but much better than a year ago, or what people are doing with the free systems.
voidUpdate|10 months ago
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anoldperson|10 months ago
If it can't manage one small fact on something that was covered quite a bit in the previous month, then it is worse than useless. At the very least it should say I don't know. It reminds me of that one guy we all know that does nothing but make stuff up when talking about stuff outside of their wheel house. Never backs down, never learns anything, and ultimately dumped from the relationship.
IAmGraydon|10 months ago