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Often when looking for an answer I just need to confirm what I already know, or look up something I forgot. Google offers me a bunch of sponsored links first and then sites with the best SEO, which will smother me with all kinds of unrelated crap that I do not want and will never need. I'm even running an extension that removes a ton of blacklisted sites from the search results.

ChatGPT usually gives me the answer that I'm looking for and nothing else. Sometimes it does add extra info, which often teaches me about something that I wasn't aware of at all.

But the greatest benefit is I can ask it to clarify anything I don't understand. I don't need to go on a completely new Google quest, or jump through hoops to register on some site and hope a random internet person will ordain to help me out. I can just ask, in the same conversation, and immediately get clarification.

Many people underestimate the incredible learning opportunities a well trained language model provides. It doesn't matter that it hallucinates or lies. Whatever it claims is usually easy to validate. What matters is the speed with which you can find uncluttered new leads or answers.