AI Search Has A Citation Problem
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
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Submission statement: As AI becomes more prolific, more people are turning to it to answer queries that would usually be answered perfectly well by a traditional search engine. This is concerning, as this study shows that these chatbot searches provided incorrect answers 60% of the time.
From the article:
We found that…
* Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
* Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts.
* Multiple chatbots seemed to bypass Robot Exclusion Protocol preferences.
* Generative search tools fabricated links and cited syndicated and copied versions of articles.
* Content licensing deals with news sources provided no guarantee of accurate citation in chatbot responses.