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gloosx on Dec 26, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engin...

>one perfect document based on millions of the documents

this literally sounds like a super-lossy compression, who would ever want this? People want crystal-clear, lossless information from original source, not a compressed mess with random artifacts.

jddj on Dec 26, 2022 [–]

> who would ever want this?

Anyone who has ever asked anyone to prepare a list of anything.

gloosx on Dec 26, 2022 | [–]

So they want indexation, in order to navigate the sources more effectively, which AI obscures and abstracts away (into cool funny neurons thou)

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