Facebook (sorry: Meta) AI: Check out our "AI" that lets you access all of humanity's knowledge.
Also Facebook AI: Be careful though, it just makes shit up.
This isn't even "they were so busy asking if they could" --- but rather they failed to spend 5 minutes asking if they could.
Using a large language model as a search engine was a bad idea when it was proposed by a search company. It's still a bad idea now that it's being proposed by a social media company. Fortunately, Chirag Shah and I already wrote the paper laying out all the ways in which this is a bad idea.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816
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