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[Discussion] What's your thoughts on AI generated search engines compared to other ways to find information? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Looking to hear your guys' thoughts on this, and hopefully share points in a more sophisticated manner than I can describe. (also, I hope this is an appropriate place to post?)

I have ran into this discussion a few times across the fediverse, but I can't for the life of my find those threads and comments lol

I believe that a non-corporate owned platform with user-generated information is most optimal, like wikipedia. I don't know the technicalities, but I feel like AI can't replace answers from human experiences - humans who are enthusiasts and care about helping each other and not making money

I don't know much about this topic, but I'm curious if you guys have actual real answers! Thread-based services like this and stack overflow (?) vs chatgpt vs bing vs google, etc.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I personally do not like the idea of AI powered "search" engines since AI has been known in the past to absolutely make stuff up and site fake articles that don't actually exist.

I don't remember the exact article, but I do remember the story of either a lawyer or law professor (I can't remember which) who asked an AI chatbot about himself and it came up citing a fake news article about him having sexual relations with a student of his (if I am remembering this all correctly).

Also, I prefer a traditional search where I am given a ton of varying links to different web pages displayed in a listed order so that way I can open a link and if I don't find what I'm looking for, just close said link and try another one. Compare that to any time I've used Perplexity chatbot where at most at the end of each response I'm given a few different links that may or may not contain the answer I'm looking for if they're even legitimate.