When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn't take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there's full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it's just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I'm not sure how I didn't notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 12 points 16 hours ago (22 children)

People also say they googled, unfortunately

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 62 points 16 hours ago (21 children)

Not the same thing.

google allows for the possibility that the user was able to think critically about sources that a search returned

chapGPT is drunk uncle confidently stating a thing they heard third hand from Janet in accounting and then taking him at his word

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

People before ChatGPT thought critically of things on Google as much as they do ChatGPT today.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

People before facebook thought critically of what they saw on the news as much as they do facebook today.

Sure, people didn't think about things too much at any point in time and sources aren't always perfectly reliable, but some sources are worse than others,

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