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Gemini in search is answering so many of my search questions wrong. If I ask natural language yes/no questions, Gemini sometimes tells me outright lies with co
by echelon 2y ago
Gemini in search is answering so many of my search questions wrong.
If I ask natural language yes/no questions, Gemini sometimes tells me outright lies with confidence.
It also presents information as authoritative - locations, science facts, corporate ownership, geography - even when it's pure hallucination.
Right at the top of Google search.
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I can't find the most obnoxious offending queries, but here was one I performed today: "how many islands does georgia have?".
Compare that with "how many islands does georgia have? Skidaway Island".
This is an extremely mild case, but I've seen some wildly wrong results, where Google has claimed companies were founded in the wrong states, that towns were located in the wrong states, etc.
- sib301 2y agoThis has happened to me zero times. :shrug:
- airstrike 2y agoDoesn't match my experience. It also feels like it's getting better over time.
- nilayj 2y agocan you provide some example queries that Gemini in search gets wrong?
- echelon 2y agoI just found another one: > A depsipeptide is a cyclic peptide where one or more amide groups are replaced by ester groups. Depsipeptides are not necessarily cyclic, and I'd probably use "bond" instead of "group". https://imgur.com/a/YslvJO2 https://imgur.com/a/YslvJO2 These errors are happening all the time.
- nice__two 2y agoGemini 1.5 indeed is a lot of hit-and-miss. Also, the politically correct and medical info filtering is limiting its usefulness a lot, IMHO. I also miss that it’s not yet really as context aware as ChatGPTo4. Even just asking a follow-up question, confuses Gemini 1.5. Hope Gemini 2.0 will improve that!
- adultSwim 2y agoI've found these results quite useful
- jonomacd 2y agoAt first, this was true but now it has gotten pretty good. The times it gets things wrong are often not the models fault and just google searches fault.