AI Search Engines Are Confidently Wrong Too Often
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A new study from Columbia Journalism Review showed that AI search engines and chatbots, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Deepseek Search, Microsoft Copilot, Grok and Google's Gemini, are just wrong, way too often. I have said this time and time again, when I see an AI Answer, at this point, I just skip over it because I know I cannot trust it and this proves that.

A new study from Columbia Journalism Review showed that AI search engines and chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Deepseek Search, Microsoft Copilot, Grok and Google’s Gemini, are just wrong, way too often.

  • Umbrias@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    classic search is mostly wrong because of ai spam, and secondarily because of seo that google encouraged that made the services worse across the board, ftr. so “ai fail to solve a problem ai made” is another version of this headline.

    • DavidGarcia@feddit.nlEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      no search has been garbage for more than 10 years now, years before any usable AI model even existed. AI articles just made it worse.

      SEO and relentless profit optimization of search engines without regard for UX is what is to blame in my book.

      • Umbrias@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        Machine learning has been degrading search for longer than llm have been widespread, yes, as has seo optimization as i described. llm have made the problem far, far worse, in every way.