Or if you are set on using AI Overviews to research products, then be intentional about asking for negatives and always fact-check the output as it is likely to include hallucinations.
If it is necessary to fact check something every single time you use it, what benefit does it give?
None. None at all.
That is my entire problem with llms and llm based tools. I get especially salty when someone sends me output from one and I confirm it’s lying in 2 minutes.
“Thank you for wasting my time.”
Google has been literally unusable for search for years.
Don’t bother asking Google if a product is worth it; it will likely recommend buying whatever you show interest in—even if the product doesn’t exist.
This seems like a general problem with these LLMs. Sometimes when I’m programming I ask the AI what it thinks about how I propose to approach some design issue or problem. It pretty much always encourages me to do what I proposed to do, and tells me it’s a good approach. So I’m using it less and less because it seems the LLMs are encouraged to agree with the user and sound positive all the time. I’m fairly sure my ideas aren’t always good. In the end I’ll be discovering the pitfalls for myself with or without time wasted asking the LLM.
The same thing seems to happen when people try to use an LLM as a therapist. The LLM is overly encouraging and agreeable, and it sends people down deep rabbit holes of delusion.
I have only tried a few of these. ChatGPT, Le Chat and then maybe a couple of days with Copilot and hours with Gemini.
Unfortunately, Le Chat is a bit on the weaker side though I would prefer its success to others.
Copilot sucked at everything including microsoft specific stuff like excel formulas and actually editing a sheet when it asked I upload it and then made insane changes that made no sense and presented it as accurate.
Gemini, I dont like google and just avoided it straight away.
ChatGPT is my go to, free only as I generally only use it as a sounding board or for broad simple research such as listing family events in my area, you know put together lists.
What you say is my gripe with it too, I have told gpt to be concise, direct and critical and it improved but it needs reminding every few days not to run off into “great idea, heres why would you like more of ehy its great ad how to do it?”
- Google is shitty
- LLMs are shitty
Combine the 2:
oh no who would have thought it would come to this
Oh, just wait. AI will all be tweaked to sell you shit.
It’s only a matter of time before product placement in AI generated photos and videos becomes a thing, too.
Yes it sucks. And it’s not the only one. I’ve recently been seeing scam ‘official site’ of a real site. Then in another occasion it was looking for a product. I couldn’t remember if it was just .com or .net. The product was not even within the first two pages of results.
I also tried DuckDuckGo.
Meanwhile I tried Kagi, first result for both, each time. I was swapping to Linux and didn’t have my Kagi login handy at the time. Anyway
It’s a HUGE difference today in search. To find what you need through all this other extra shit. Good Search is more important now than ever imho.
Feels like we’re heading back to the early 90s, before search engines, with pages that are just a bunch of curated links to other pages
This ia crazy. It means Google and Reddit are shifting content from other web sites to Reddit, under corporate control. It seems like Google has firmly entered the unsustainable profit maximization step where they’re now increasing the share of profit they take from their content sources by redirecting less and less traffic to them, while showing that content to Google users.
Working as designed.
