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In my tests, it does hallucinate answers, even with Phind 70B. For example, I asked for bluetooth earplugs that have easy battery replacements. It always kept giving me answers for earplugs with I know have their battery soldered into the casing. Tbf, perplexity also fails at this question.

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What's good about Phind is even if it gives a wrong answer, it gives you a link to a website where you can try to verify the answer.

FWIW my query for your question gives me a pretty good answer. The first list has three options, one of which is soldered (and the answer says so). It narrows it down to unsoldered ones when I ask.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=kukryw72yutlp4u88nubmjuu

This answer is mostly good because it relies heavily on an iFixit article that it provides as the first reference. That's what I like about using Phind, it's as much a search engine as an oracle.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/35377/which-wireless-earbuds-are...

If you ask it questions about software that doesn't occupy wide swaths of stack overflow, it tends to hallucinate features of the language too. I asked for some details regarding policies in Chef and it went on a long, confident diatribe about the "policy" resource (which does not exist, nor does anything even kind of similar to it AFAIK).

I just asked your question in French and the right answer (the Fairphone Fairbuds) is in third position on the right: https://imgur.com/a/dmoaB5r

Google seems to be better at this, giving me the Fairbuds directly: https://imgur.com/a/7En4e9u

‘Easy battery replacements’ is pretty subjective. This feels like one of those error that demonstrate how good the tech is, because it’s being used for very specific and subjective requests

It should be able to figure out what an average joe would understand from such questions. I think any human would interpret "easy battery replacement" as "you can just remove the old battery out and put the new one in". If a random person asked you such a question, would you assume he has the tools and the skill needed to solder new batteries and considers that easy?

this is why search sucks the average person(if they didn't really know what you meant would ask...what are you talking about?

However, glued-in is not subjective. Non-replaceable is not on the scale of easily-hardly replaceable.

Can you name some earbuds where we could disagree whether it is easy or not to replace the battery?

Guess not

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