We have all seen AI-based searches available on the web like Copilot, Perplexity, DuckAssist etc, which scour the web for information, present them in a summarized form, and also cite sources in support of the summary.

But how do they know which sources are legitimate and which are simple BS ? Do they exercise judgement while crawling, or do they have some kind of filter list around the “trustworthyness” of various web sources ?

  • Pyr
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    4 days ago

    What’s the point of AI if you need to search for the source to make sure it’s right everytime? Just skip a step and search for a source first thing.

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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      There’s so many ways to answer this that I’m surprised it’s asked in the first place. AI is not some be all end all of knowledge. It’s a tool like any other.