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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by Kye on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:57AM (#35601768)
Citations! I never trust Bing Chat's answer. The links usually quickly tell you if the answer is hallucinated. Basically: treat it as a search engine, not an answer engine. Follow the links like you would on any other search engine. Those links will still be more relevant.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by robotresearcher on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:08AM (#35601928)
It happily made up citations for me. In a follow up, I asked it not too, and to please use only real papers. It apologized, said it would not do it again, then in the same reply made up another non-existent but plausible citation.

Checking the links is a good practice.

I feel like we just created an interesting novel problem in the world. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by bastardoperator on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:38AM (#35602351)
Sounds like you should be doing the research yourself but are relying on an untrusted source to feed you answers? I don't think we're their yet...
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by robotresearcher on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:20PM (#35606747)
On the contrary, I was doing a calibration, asking about something to which I know the answers very well. To see if it was trustworthy.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by brookst on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:50PM (#35604862)
Are you talking about Bing Chat, which cites actual web pages it used to make the summary, or ChatGPT, which is a very different beast and relies on built-in knowledge rather than searches?
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by robotresearcher on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:21PM (#35606760)
Good call. I was using ChatGPT.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by siquick on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:15PM (#35607369)
Phind gives you citations and even let’s you ignore certain sources.

https://www.phind.com/

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by Kye on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:18PM (#35607401)
Not any use to me (not a developer), but it's cool there are niche search engines for stuff like this.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by Spivak on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:39PM (#35608568)
Ignore the tagline, it's a general purpose search engine with some features for code.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by siquick on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:50PM (#35622181)
Yeah that seems an unnecessary tagline - it works great for everything in my experience
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