Ask HN: If ChatGPT surpasses Google search, do data sources become the moat?
If the moat to building chatGPT-like apps is training on up-to-date primary source data from sites like reddit, and the algorithms quickly become copied and commodified (like stable diffusion etc did to dall-e), doesn’t all the value accrue to primary information sources like reddit? They can sell access to their information and ban/sue anyone who tries to scrape their data wholesale, and essentially determine the best AI?
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Personally I like the idea of something like chatgpt replacing google search. But, and a huge but, I miss the sources its trained on. Are these copyrighted sources, who owns the rights to the content it spews out? I like to know whos content I am reading and or using (when opensource) to reference them when needed.
Surpass in what? The main point of search is still link retrieval which ChatGPT doesn't do.