We can pretend that ChatGPT is still not over 50% AGI. But come on, it is, It can do everything better than 50% of the population, already. "but it won't do whatever" well your next door neighbour also won't. We're comparing it to "us" smart people, but given the right interface it can outsmart most people any day now. People are getting scammed by russian bots posing as women. By nigerians pretending to be wealthy princes. By african chamans with great psychic powers. These people won't stand a chance against chatGPT as it is today, if only they had the chance to interact with it. We're already there, and the tech companies know it.

There's a big difference. Google just links to the results, including some ads in the mix, and can claim the info was already there. ChatGPT is creating an answer, a derivative work on the results. This has huge implications for copyright law and can be a huge liability for misrepresenting people, products or companies.

The have to get it to stop hallucinating first. And there's no easy fix.