From a live tweet of the proceedings around the lawyer caught using ChatGPT:
"I thought ChatGPT was a search engine".
It is NOT a search engine. Nor, by the way are the version of it included in Bing or Google's Bard.
Language model-driven chatbots are not suitable for information access.
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Honestly, this lawyer is actually lucky, bc he is working within a system that was able to catch his misstep.
When MSFT, GOOG & others present their chatbots as a replacement for search, they are setting people up for similar fails, typically in much less regulated spaces.
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Say it with me as many times as it takes to make the lesson stick: Chatbots are not a suitable replacement for search engines.
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/109570353001872254
Chatbots are not a good replacement for search engines https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334
Even search engines are not search engines. At best they are selective web crawlers, that offer a biased search of their local database of outdated webpages. Then show sponsored links like “Buy supporting cases at amazon”, then popular pages that contain some of the search terms and sometimes the correct search result on page three.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
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