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Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google by drc500free on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:03PM (#32349886)
Google's answer box also can't be trusted to output truthful information.
Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google by ceejayoz on Thursday August 04, 2022 @09:31PM (#32350417)
Fun one today: https://www.google.com/search?q=is+fortigate+open+source

Prompt: "Is Fortigate open source?"

Article: "Based on the parameters we compared, it seems that pfSense is the more favorable solution because it is open source and also offers great features."

Google: "It is open source!"

Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google by hammyhavoc on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:15PM (#32350722)
Yes, these are forever spreading disinformation on various topics in my social group. I am forever telling people to actually click and read the article rather than trust the automatic tl;dr by Google.
Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google by soulofmischief on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:09PM (#32349927)
I believe this is the point that @drivebycomment was making, that answering such a query is not possible right now. The query needs to be reframed by using keywords like the GPT-3 prompt did, and even further refined than that, and you still have to finish the last mile of research.
Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google by summerlight on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:48PM (#32358673)
Google simply returns human written results, so delegating the trust problem. You can track author's record and judge if they're trustworthy yourself. Doing the same thing for GPT-3 is much harder. How are you going to debug the model? Probably there is only a handful amount of people who is capable of debugging the model even with all necessary access granted. You can think it as autonomous driving which already has reached to a good level for 99% of use cases (at least for Waymo and Cruise), but no one think it's going to mass deploy robotaxi anytime soon.