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.
In the popular press/general public-facing Q&A about our paper:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/29/1048439/chatbots-replace-search-engine-terrible-idea/
https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/03/14/qa-preserving-context-and-user-intent-in-the-future-of-web-search/
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