It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

  • makyo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No that’s very true, I had it look up leather repair shops not too long ago and it listed six completely fictional shops with fully fleshed out trip-advisor style blurbs for each one. It was hilariously convincing and a complete waste of my time. But it does seem like that happens less and less lately.

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      2 months ago

      Thing is, you never have any clue whether the AI is telling you something even remotely true unless you go behind it and trawl through six pages of shitty SEO-optimized bullshit anyway. So you can either take its word at face value and potentially be completely wrong, or else just do the research yourself anyway and ignore the AI answer.

      Personally, I choose the second. I find it to be less frustrating if I just assume the AI is wrong.

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        2 months ago

        This is kinda how I’ve come to look at it. You cannot ask questions of fact to a machine that works in probabilities.