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		james2doyle 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030 Do you buy the first item that pops up on Amazon for a search that you've made? Because that's letting the robot do it for you. If the answer is "no because that's an ad", well, how do you know that the output from ChatGPT isn't all just products that have bought their rank in the results?

jgilias 6 days ago [–]

You get the sources, you click through to them to see what they are.

EDIT: Like, have you actually tried this? If you ask it to summarise what Reddit is saying with sources, that’s pretty much exactly what you get.

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