LLMs are more forgiving for trivia style answers than search engines.

A common use case for me: someone tells me a half remembered quote and tells me a name that it's difficult to spell and I likely spelled incorrectly.

In the past, I could use Google, with a good helping of Google-fu, to construct a clever query that would help me find the original quote and who said it.

But if I didn't construct the query correctly it wouldn't work.

People with less Google-fu would be out of luck.

But LLMs are very resilient to this. Just drop in the word vomit you have and say "what is the quote and who said this" and it will almost certainly get it right.

And now that you have the proposed actual quote and speaker it is easy and quick to confirm with Google.

Another great use I've found: helping me find the quote from a book I'm thinking of.

I tell it the general idea I'm thinking of and then pass it the hundreds of pages of Readwise.io highlights I took from that book and ask it to select the quote that best captures the vibe I'm thinking of.

Previously this would have required patiently scrolling through hundreds of pages, or remembering a distinctive word from the quote.