Ed Pichon @edpichon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I think it’s the fundamental problem with LLM AIs - they are optimized to “sound” correct, not _be_ correct. If you have to be an expert on a topic to know if the answer given is BS, it means it is a useless tool for finding information. 140
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Generative AI is remarkably bad at finding information. But "type in text and get a result" looks the same, to people who don't know enough about either search or machine learning, and so we get "search use cases" www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...cjr.orgAI Search Has A Citation ProblemWe Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. 150
Ed Pichon @edpichon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025It’s not just bad at finding information, it actively obscures it. AI-generated schlock is poisoning basic search results, and making it increasingly difficult to find reliable information. The theory of AI is bad enough - the actual practice is destructive to knowledge. 010
