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Re:Why ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon by notahacker on Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:29PM (#34292397)
> And as a logical aside: if AI can't be trusted, we shouldn't trust AI's recommendations for reliable sources either.

Don't think that's automatically true though: an AI can be consistently excellent at retrieving reliable sources and still get a lot wrong on its summaries. Also humans have their own opinions on sources even when they're not familiar with the detail, and finding out if the AI reads Nature or 4chan is part of the debugging process...

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Re:Why ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon by pattyj on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:37PM (#34293127)
Sure. Really, I was thinking of the scenario where someone explictly asks for a reliable source i.e. "Thanks for summary about X. To whom should I turn for more accurate/detailed information?"
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Re:Why ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon by notahacker on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:23PM (#34293610)
Oh yeah, it's spectacularly bad at some of that sort of thing. Ask for a list of academic papers and it'll make half of them up and give others new authors...
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