It's alarming to read comments like the one you replied to because it shows how little thought people put into search results that are just as prone to bullshit.
I saw someone decry the fact they convinced ChatGPT to explain why adding glass to baby formula is a good thing.
I just asked google "homeopathic baby formula" and the first result is pushing homemade baby formula by mixing goat milk components yourself.
Note that this isn't the same as buying goat milk based baby formula, they're telling people to go out and buy powdered goat milk and mix up their own formula, something that can have disastrous results: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/goats-milk-for-babies/
The reality is Google is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, if you're actually under the impression that you can blindly trust it. ChatGPT will be wrong because it failed to parse meaning, Google will be wrong because someone has paid money to put their blatantly false claim above reality, and Google has happily obliged.
Okay, but Google points you to some site that says something. You can evaluate what that site says, based on its content and other signals about its reputation, and ponder the information with other information from other sources. That's what searching is supposed to involve.
ChatGPT provides answers in its own name, with confidence and often arrogance, and the air of authority that comes from a well articulated discourse, even if the underlying reasoning is completely absurd, stupid and dangerous.
It's a completely arbitrary difference you've imposed that someone would blindly follow ChatGPT, but not Google.
The Google result is a site written "with confidence and often arrogance, and the air of authority that comes from a well articulated discourse".
The article about making your own baby formula by buying goat lactose is incredibly stupid, nonsensically so.
In fact you don't even have to visit the site, Google attempts to answer using the content from the site specifically so that it inherits their credibility (Google wants to be seen as answering your query, not the site)
At the end of the day "You can evaluate what that site says, based on its content and other signals about its reputation, and ponder the information with other information from other sources" applies to ChatGPT and Google equally.
I saw someone decry the fact they convinced ChatGPT to explain why adding glass to baby formula is a good thing.
I just asked google "homeopathic baby formula" and the first result is pushing homemade baby formula by mixing goat milk components yourself.
https://mtcapra.com/homemade-baby-formula-recipe-the-closest...
Note that this isn't the same as buying goat milk based baby formula, they're telling people to go out and buy powdered goat milk and mix up their own formula, something that can have disastrous results: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/goats-milk-for-babies/
The reality is Google is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, if you're actually under the impression that you can blindly trust it. ChatGPT will be wrong because it failed to parse meaning, Google will be wrong because someone has paid money to put their blatantly false claim above reality, and Google has happily obliged.