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Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's also worth noting that you can ask tools like ChatGPT for it's references.

last time I tried that it made up links that didn't work, and then it admitted that it cannot reference anything because of not having access to the internet

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Paid version does both access the web and cite its sources

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

And copilot will do that for 'free'

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's my point, if the model returns a hallucinated source you can probably disregard it's output. But if the model provides an accurate source you can verify it's output. Depending on the information you're researching, this approach can be much quicker than using Google. Out of interest, have you experienced source hallucinations on ChatGPT recently (last few weeks)? I have not experienced source hallucinations in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I use GPT (4o, premium) a lot, and yes, I still sometimes experience source hallucinations. It also will sometimes hallucinate incorrect things not in the source. I get better results when I tell it not to browse. The large context of processing web pages seems to hurt its "performance." I would never trust gen AI for a recipe. I usually just use Kagi to search for recipes and have it set to promote results from recipe sites I like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

i have stopped using openai services, and now I'm only using ai services through duck.ai website for trying to protect my privacy