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Re:Google changes its search box by xorcist on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @06:28PM (#48200537)
It's nice that Google's AI summary always lists its sources. It's less nice that those sources more often than not do not corroborate the summary. It often seems to be a few random links thrown in there for good measure.

I have no idea why this is, but it is impossible that these links are primary sources of the data, if such things even exists at all. In which case, why list them?

It is certainly seems possible that the actual sources of the data is the output of some other LLM.

Re:Google changes its search box by kyleee on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @07:06PM (#48200866)
I’ll bet they intentionally obfuscate so people can’t find the actual sources of info used for the answers
Re:Google changes its search box by consp on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:48AM (#48203990)
> It is certainly seems possible that the actual sources of the data is the output of some other LLM.

My guess is you can see this happening with the bots on Reddit where they are refining the answers to one certain thing, often getting two or three the same responses in a row from different users because they have been enforcing themselves by digesting the output of other bots. Waiting to see when they cut down the sentences and start talking garbage.