AI search engines give incorrect answers at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

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[DrewW]

All kidding aside, it doesn't take more than five minutes to figure out that these AI engines are often wrong....in the worst possible way. Subtly incorrect with an air of authority. Rarely entirely incorrect....so people give the benefit of the doubt. Sigh.

I think of dumb ai like malicious compliance from dumb people. The cheese will stick to a pizza if you add a 1/8 cup of glue; the request was fulfilled and the solution will work. I expect the same uselessness from a chatbot or from a stoned undergrad.