ChatGPT replaced Google. Ask it a question, get an answer, skip the SEO spam, skip the ads, skip the ten years of Quora. It knows everything. It cites sources. It writes essays, summaries, code, recipes, legal advice, medical advice, the lot. Whole industries are reorganising around it. Even Bing turned itself into ChatGPT. Search is finished, this is what comes next.
ChatGPT is a large language model. It does not look anything up. It generates text that statistically resembles plausible text given the words you typed at it. When it gives you a fact, the fact is correct only if the correct version was the most probable continuation of your question, which it often is for common questions and often isn't for niche ones. It has no concept of truth, no fact-check step, and no real-time access to the world unless you've turned on web search (a separate feature, added later). It hallucinates court cases, medical citations, and book titles with full confidence. Lawyers have been sanctioned for filing briefs full of fake precedents ChatGPT made up. It is genuinely useful for drafting, summarising, brainstorming, and pattern-matching. It is unreliable for facts you can't verify yourself. The right mental model is 'a confident intern who has read everything and remembers most of it wrong.' Treat the output like that, and you'll be fine.