Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
As I understand her entire thread — which this person has severed, thereby limiting context — the variable accuracy of searches on ChatGPT makes them poor excuses for search engines.
She does not need to specifically say it is a “bad” search engine if the affect of her context is clear. Which I believe it is. I read that and conclude that Ann thinks ChatGPT is a BAD search engine, not that it doesn’t rank responses to a query.
If you want me to accept that LLMs are a general use technology — an unavoidable one at that — you will have to give up your expertise domain when people talk about it colloquially.
I have seen mostly men do this to Ann’s comment -mocking her lack of technical specificity but shielding themselves from criticism because, I suspect, they understood her context just fine.
The irony of stripping context to make a technical point for tech that…professes to do context…is rich.
May 1, 2025 20:57Finally, a screen grab is real punk bitch behavior and I cannot stand a punk bitch.
