The quality of responses has generally gotten worse the more that all the AI providers have leaned on search.
Now it’s default on for everything and annoying to turn off. The response you get back when search is off can be the complete opposite and is often more interesting.
In my experience without search I end up with an hallucination fest more time than not. In one sense that might be more interesting but I'm not sure that's what you mean :)
I wouldn’t call it a hallucination fest. If you’re using the models for anything other than a juiced up google search then turning search off, at least until it’s actually needed, is better in my opinion.
