We have all seen AI-based searches available on the web like Copilot, Perplexity, DuckAssist etc, which scour the web for information, present them in a summarized form, and also cite sources in support of the summary.

But how do they know which sources are legitimate and which are simple BS ? Do they exercise judgement while crawling, or do they have some kind of filter list around the “trustworthyness” of various web sources ?

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Most of the time if I read the AI summary from Google it’s wrong. Very few times has it actually been helpful.

      • vaderaj@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I use duckduckgo as preferred search engine, while starting at my new job I used google for a bit (before setting up firefox, yes librewolf needed extra permissions and I couldn’t be bothered).

        Search promopt: word highlight shortcut. Gemini suggested Ctrl+shift+H but it is Ctrl+alt+H. Every now and then I feel like I need to try AI products because I work in data domain because and it’s always a good idea confirm whether something is as bad as you think it is.