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AI Search Engines Are Confidently Wrong Too Often. (www.seroundtable.com)
submitted 23 hours ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[โ€“] DioEgizio@lemm.ee 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

LLMs hallucinate. In other words, water is wet

[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

They are in the end BS generation machines that are trained so much they accidentally happen to be right often enough.