one of the things that really pisses me off about how companies are framing the narrative on text generators is that they've gone out of their way to establish that the primary thing they are For is to be asked questions, like factual questions, when this is in no sense what they're inherently good at and given how they work it's miraculous that it ever works at all.
They've even got people calling it a "ChatGPT search". Now, correct me if I'm wrong software mutuals, but as i understand it, no searching is actually happening, right? Not in the moment when you ask the question. Maybe this varies across interfaces; maybe the one they've got plugged into Google is in some sense responding to content fed to it in the moment out of a conventional web search, but your like chatbot interface LLM isn't searching shit is it, it's working off data it's already been trained on and it can only work off something that isn't in there if you feed it the new text
i would be far less annoyed if they were still pitching them as like virtual buddies you can talk to or short story generators or programs that can rephrase and edit text that you feed to them
