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I was among the first to champion AI search, even before Perplexity rose to fame. You.com was the first AI search to quote sources well, and I used it extensive
by caseyy 2y ago
I was among the first to champion AI search, even before Perplexity rose to fame. You.com was the first AI search to quote sources well, and I used it extensively.
But now, the veracity of most LLMs' responses is terrible. They often include “sources” unrelated to what they say and make up hallucinations when I search for what I'm an expert in. Even Gemini in Google Search told me yesterday that Ada Lovelace invented the first programming language in the 18th century. The trust is completely gone.
So, I'm back to the plain old search. At least it doesn't obscure its sources, and I can get a sense of the veracity of what I find.
- esperent 2y ago> The trust is completely gone I mean, for everyone else it was never there to begin with. Hallucinations are constantly raised as the biggest issues with AI. According to the tests, and my experience, newer AI models are objectively better, not worse than the ones from a few years ago. They still have a long way to go/may never be fully trustworthy though. What I have lost trust in, and what I and many feel has become much worse over the few years, is Google search, and all the other search engines that are based on it.
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- caseyy 2y agoI think the old ones were more trustworthy, as the LLM wasn't used for knowledge retrieval. Instead, it wrapped around a search API and summarized the "10 blue links". That's not the case anymore. Now they produce the search results, hallucinating along the way.
- esperent 2y ago> That's not the case anymore Isn't that what ChatGPT/anthropic web access does?