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.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
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    1 day ago

    well that’s common, but the big thing is, you can see what you are working with. Big difference in at least knowing you need to try a different site when say

    Google: Law about X in state1

    Top result: Law about X in state3: It’s illegal

    Result 2 pages in: here’s a list of each page and whether law X is legal in your state… (State 1 legal)

    Versus chatgpt

    Is X legal in state1?

    Chatgpt: No