If that were the case, shouldn't google be equally capable of including so many examples in their own dataset?

Like, regardless of how it works under the hood, I as an end user just want a useful result. Even if ChatGPT is "cheating" to accomplish those results, it looks better for the end user.

The continued trickle of disappointing updates to Bard seems to indicate why Google hadn't productized their AI research before OpenAI did.