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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by staticman2 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:32PM (#47605450)
I'm not the person you replied to but I'm wondering which Google AI product you are referring to that you use for search which is so excellent that you need someone to find for you an example of it failing?

I think Google has several ai products with search features?

Which one in your experience "seems correct"?

I'm fascinated because I've never found any LLM to be particularly error free at search.

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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by satvikpendem on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:37PM (#47605510)
Google.com with the AI overview or whatever they call it now. It seems to source web page information for grounding so it's reasonably correct and doesn't hallucinate recently at least.
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by staticman2 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:31PM (#47608014)
I played around with it and its better than it used to be but if you ask it something like

"Whats the name of the third book in the peripheral trilogy going to be" it just regurgitates some dumb reddit comment by someone who seems to be making things up.

There's no actual title that has been announced and the reddit post was not a reasonable bit of speculation.

The problem with these LLMs is they rarely say "the search results were not credible no response can be provided."

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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by keeda on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:44PM (#47609063)
These days, Google AI overviews regularly add a qualifier to the effect of "... according to this comment on Reddit <link>"

That's basically a UX trick to entirely sidestep being held accountable for the results, but seems sufficient to notify the user about the provenance of the answer to adjust their grains of salt.

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