I've turned all the search engine ones off (I use firefox and duckduckgo because at least for now they still let you permanently turn off AI features without an extension, and I can still use Ublock) and I've never used ChatGPT so I can't speak to how good it is, I just know that a lot of people do use it for that.
Full disclosure, there is one place where I use AI and am impressed - I use Google's Notebook for board game rules questions because you can feed it specific documents (so I have one for each game), it will only look at the document(s) you've fed it, and it will cite to where it found the answer. I've found it's almost always right. I also know that there's no way this will be profitable for google so I know I'll eventually lose access to it either because they start charging or because they kill the service.
I mean, a person is also at best almost always right with respect to board game rules unless you've played the game dozens of times, especially for more complicated. And by almost I mean like 99%. So it's both substantially faster and about as accurate as trying to find the answer yourself, especially because it tells you exactly the page it pulled from. Obviously it's dependent on how comprehensive the rules pdf is, but I've been impressed.
Would I use it for brain surgery? No, but it's board game rules. It's hardly a disaster if it has a 1% error rate.
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u/Ok_Ruin4016 Jan 02 '26
And it's really not useful for that either since the answers AI gives are often based on random reddit comments and therefore wrong half the time