People always misuse searchengines by writing the whole questions as a search…
With ai they still can do that and get, i think in their optinion, a better result
People always misuse searchengines by writing the whole questions as a search…
With ai they still can do that and get, i think in their optinion, a better result
Eh? You can ask it to provide sources and it will. Or at least Google AI in the search box does it by default
There’s lots of things wrong with AI, but that’s actually not one of them much of the time.
There is no guarantee those sources say what the answer says, or indeed that they actually exist. Generators can and do assemble words into phrases that look like citations, but those sources don’t exist. It’s actually a problem for librarians, who keep getting accused of hiding nonexistent books “cited” by ChatGPT
Or in comic form:
![A comic in four panels and one insert by Davide Ravoy:
Panel 1. While walking on a swamp, a young Gothic Sorceress and her AI cyber parrot flying behind her, meets a little lonely frog on the leaves of waterlilies. The Gothic sorcereress walks with confidence.
Panel 2. Shot on the AI Parrot, explaining, the Gothic sorceress turn back, emitting doubt about what the AI bird says.
Panel 3. Shot on the AI Parrot, hallucinating a list of sources. The Gothic sorcerer considers the list.
Insert panel: The Gothic Sorceress kisses the frog, who blushes:
Panel 4. The frog is still a frog. The Gothic Sorceress spits in disgust. The frog continues to blush.
Oh you definitely have to double check. But what’s the point of sources if you don’t check them anyway?
And links in particular are super easy to check. Books and articles obviously less so
Oh interesting. It should do this by default then.
Defaults matter. They normalize patterns of behaviour. People who are normalized not to care about citations are being trained to blindly accept whatever they’re told. That’s a recipe for an unthinking, obedient, submissive society.
Congratulations, you’re now caught up on the last two decades
Oh this has been going on for centuries. Technology is always changing and so is culture! I think it’s usually the case that technology changes first and culture takes a while to catch up.
Yes. And I find it interesting that every online AI I have encountered hides it’s work, while the open source locally hosted versions default to showing their work.
I’m not sure I have a grasp on the various motivations in play, but it doesn’t feel nice that the ones available to the average user behave so differently.
Yes and no. It sometimes kind of tries to extrapolate from lots of sources and just gives you a few of them that don’t really give an answer.