Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

  • Prox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Have you just, I dunno, used Bing?

    Gonna be an unpopular opinion, but for me Bing is more useful than DDG. Note that I didn’t say, “better”… I know that increase in relevance of results for Bing stems from the fact that they roll all my historical info into what they serve up.

    • vonbaronhans@midwest.socialEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I used Bing by default for several months just because that’s what my work laptop’s browser had for default.

      I never directly compared those results to DDG, but 9/10 times I would get frustrated by the lack of relevant results and go back to Google, where I’d find something useful on the first page of results.

      • Prox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Interesting! Did your results have that copilot summary thing? I get most of my answers there without having to visit a handful of ad-laden sites myself, though it also cites its references in case I don’t trust the summary.

        • vonbaronhans@midwest.socialEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Not so much, maybe towards the last month of that period defaulting to Bing. I think it was still being constantly rebranded then. It was still pretty new, so I never really trusted it for anything and just went to the sites in the results.