So that is what ChatGPT does: in response to a prompt, it puts together an answer that is composed of words in its training material organized based on the statistical probability that those words appear together and the degree to which they are related to the prompt (processed through an extremely complex language model).
It thus assembles words from its big bag of words in a way that looks like the assemblages of words it has seen in its training and which its human trainers have ranked highly.
And if all you want ChatGPT to do is precisely that: somewhat randomly assemble a bunch of words loosely related to a topic in a form that resembles communication, it can do that for you.
I’m not sure why you want it to do that, but that is the one and only thing it can do.
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But there are a lot of content mills online which are really looking to just supply large amounts of vaguely relevant text at the lowest possible cost hoping to harvest views from gullible search engines.
For those content mills, ChatGPT potentially has a lot of value but those content mills provide almost no value to us, the consumer.
Far from it, they are one of the major reasons why folks report declining search engine quality, as they crowd out actually useful content.
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