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The ability for LLMs to search the web made a big splash. Yet little emphasis was made on the fact that the web is a poisoned well. Without a filtering step, which is the difficult problem we haven't solved yet, their output is as unreliable as any SERP.

I used to be able to kind of deep dive music with the AI models. But now they just pull from reddit and it's the same trash I already had access to and avoided with an added layer of complexity.

Similar to this story from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920

i've seen this in my niche, too. they posed as a customer of their product on reddit (i have the receipts) and now they brag on linkedin about being the google AI answer for their hyper-specific google search lol