In my experience, 80% of the links it provides are either 404, or go to a thread on a forum that is completely unrelated to the subject.
Im also someone who refuses to pay for it, so maybe the paid versions do better. who knows.
Im also someone who refuses to pay for it, so maybe the paid versions do better. who knows.
Running these things is expensive, and they're just not serving the same experience to non-paying users.
One could argue this is a bad idea on their part, letting people get a bad taste of an inferior product. And I wouldn't disagree, but I don't know what a sustainable alternative approach is.
Same issue with Gemini. Intuitively I'd also assume it's trivial to fix but perhaps there's more going on than we think. Perhaps validating every part of a response is a big overhead both financially and might even throw off the model and make it less accurate in other ways.