Subj : Re: ChatGPT?
To   : Ogg
From : Adept
Date : Mon Feb 20 2023 21:38:42

 Og> I have a feeling that it WILL be the new search engine  
 Og> interface. We'll just get a box to enter our full-word query  
 Og> and it will spew out an answer.  But perhaps the interface will  
 Og> have an option to use the traditional form of search results as  
 Og> well, that is until most (new/young) people only use the  
 Og> chatgpt version.

Yeah, and that's exactly what I'm afraid of.

I'm not worried about new tools; I'm worried about the good aspects of old tools being lost.

But that's probably hardly controversial to a crowd of BBS users, where we experience all sorts of good aspects of using BBSs, including that most all the content is made by individual users typing it out, rather than sharing stuff from other people.

Or, heck, knowing _exactly_ how many messages are left in the current message base before I'm done with it for a while.

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