Hasn't everything in ChatGPT - been posted by 6 year olds on reddit, and ChatGPT is simply a very impressive indexer and query interface? :-)

The real question is ChatGPT a better information retrieval tool that the old Google search interface before they dumbed it down?

For me the main differences are that for ChatGPT it summarises across multiple sources - sometimes good, sometimes not, and the refinement of queries feels much more natural with it's use of context.

Though I often find myself fighting both the new Google search interface and ChatGPT to try and get the right answers to the specific area I want.

luckily, we have hundreds of millions of 6 year olds addicted to reddit who will answer whatever question you might have.