I get the general techbro sphere doing this because they're fucking idiots, but you are the maintainers of this technology. You know this is ultimately a language model built to synthesize information from pre-existing data sets. This is extremely fucking ghoulish.
I hate the promotion of the idea that we should be using generative adversarial networks as search engines or encyclopedias so much it's unreal, literal misinfo generation machines :agony-shivering:
Yeah they constantly cover their asses by saying "hey this has limitations, don't count on this thing being right all the time" but then go on to integrate it into search engines, and in the case of this one an app for low vision/blind people that previously relied on volunteers (Be My Eyes). Also all the hype surrounding this thing definetly undermines any attempt at conveying the limitations to a general public.
On a different note, what is the business model here? This thing is probably expensive as hell to run.
I think they'll make an enterprise version that'll be expensive, in the way enterprise email and messaging is expensive.
If you check out OpenAI's API pricing it's actually not terrible. I bet MS gets some kind of sweetheart pricing on top of it. They're probably siphoning your conversation with the AI to advertisers. Search is somehow the most profitable kind of software, so anything that gets more people doing searches while also providing better data is more profitable.
We train it to do our jobs.