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Comment on Ask HN: Should Google be concerned with ChatGPT

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No.

StackOverflow are the ones that should be concerned.

Yes. I spend the whole weekend, trying to find information on some caching and invalidation configuration for Django. I googled almost half a day, I get what I need to set up, but what I am working on is quite custom, and neither Stackoverflow or Google where of great help. There were decent answers, but they were not giving me the whole picture.

Then on Monday I decided to plug in the question into ChatGPT, within 10 minutes I got a better answer than half a day Googling (including code snippets). I could adapt my questions to better fit my customization need. And when I wasn't sure about some setting, I could ask ChatGPT to explain me why I should use this setting, and what it was good for. It gave me the whole picture and some more.

ChatGPT is like a personal consultant which absolutely rivals StackOverflow.

What were you trying to do?

A ChatGPT bot crawling Stack Overflow could do some serious stuff.

Crawling and doing what? Answering questions, or training based on questions and answers? If you mean the latter, it most likely has, given how great it is at fixing code errors.

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