alt Hacker News"Fine" may be "right 95% of the time" but I'll look like a jackass 5% of the time that I trust the Google AI Overview.
And I won't know which ones are the wrong ones, so I may as well trust it 0% of the time.
Most people I know use AI Overview now as their primary way of doing any sort of research or question-answering... and I urge them: If getting an LLM take is suitable for your purpose, at least ask free-tier ChatGPT, which is at least an order of magnitude less likely to vomit up false or confused information. Also, asking actual Gemini is another sane option that is far superior to AI Overview.
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Does it really matter that much? Did it matter that everyone's parents pre-internet were wrong half of the time?
Most people are not asking google to build them a train signaling system but to look up some question on Wikipedia for which the answer does not matter that much
Interesting, I had terrible experience with ChatGPT as search not-so while back, found gemini quite useful for finding out the articles and brainstorming information.