• AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    In my experience at least, there has not once been an instance where an LLM was able to find answers on Reddit more reliably than I could, and I’ve been using LLMs since before ChatGPT was even a thing. (though granted, most web-search compatible LLMs came later on)

    I think it will probably be better than the average user, since a lot of people simply aren’t that great at using search engines very effectively in the first place, but I wouldn’t call the answers “practically impossible to find.”

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      15 hours ago

      I read that as being a shot at their internal search feature sucking, which it did for a long time, not sure what it is like now. It was easier to search Google to find things on reddit for a while there.

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        16 hours ago

        True. I’ve found DuckDuckGo to still be pretty good though, especially for forum searches, at least in my experience.

        I use Kagi now, which is even better, for me at least, but that’s paid and I know most people aren’t gonna shell out money every month for a search engine.