AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
arstechnica.com AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
Researchers Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar noted in their report that roughly 1 in 4 Americans now use AI models as alternatives to traditional search engines. This raises serious concerns about reliability, given the substantial error rate uncovered in the study.
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Can confirm. Usually when an LLM comes up with an outrageous claim, I check the source and find out it’s completely irrelevant.