Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT as Search Citations Drop 86%

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1350973/reddit-almost-disappears-from-chatgpt-as-search-citations-drop-86

promptwatch.com/data/reddit-citations-are-dropping-in-chatgpt

Since when does ChatGPT provide citations?

It’s had web search ability for about 2 years now. That makes it a fair bit more reliable than before except for when the source it finds is actually irrelevant. But if you’re knowledgeable in the domain you’re prompting about, it’ll usually be easy to figure out. If you’re not… Well, good luck.

I know it had web searchability, but it never provided the source of the information, which is, like, a giant fucking problem .