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It's not an abstraction of search, though. It's a conditional regurgitation of the entire Internet with randomization. That is significantly and meaningfully different.
It's not finding text or context matches and reproducing them, it's guessing the next word based off of the steaming pile of horse shit people have dumped over the Internet in attempts to garner attention or scam others.
from my experience despite the difference in process it does about as well. This is one reason it providing sources for its answers is so important. Its funny how in social media its so common to get the response. source? but many folks don't care if the llm gives them it.