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.