[mnky9800n]

This why I like how perplexity forces citations. I use it more like I’m googling then I care about what the LLM writes. The LLM simply acts as a sometimes unreasonable interface to the search engine. So really, I’m more focused on if whatever embeddings the LLM is trained on found some correlations between different documents, etc that were not obvious to a different kind of search engine.

[wazoox]

Perplexity often quotes references that simply don't exist. Recent examples provided by perplexity :

Google Cloud. (2024). "Broadcast Transformation with Google Cloud." https://cloud.google.com/solutions/media-entertainment/broad...

Microsoft Azure. (2024). "Azure for Media and Entertainment." https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/media-entertainm...

IBC365. (2023). "The Future of Broadcast Engineering: Skills and Training." https://www.ibc.org/tech-advances/the-future-of-broadcast-en...

Broadcast Bridge. (2023). "Cloud Skills for Broadcast Engineers." https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/18744/cloud...

SVG Europe. (2023). "OTT and Cloud: The New Normal for Broadcast." https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/ott-and-cloud-the-n...

None of these exist, neither at the provided URLs or elsewhere.

[mnky9800n]

Yes. That’s why I click on the links and read them and think “this doesn’t exist”. Then I go about my day just like I would have sorting through links served to me by a Google query that ended up being nonsensical or irrelevant.

[pishpash]

You're over-representing the usefulness here. On topics where traditional search reaches a dead end, you will find the AI citations to be the same ones you might have found, except that upon checking, they were clearly misread or misrepresented. Dangerous and a waste of time.

It's much more helpful on popular topics where summarization itself is already high quality and sufficient.

[mnky9800n]

I dunno. I think of it like a recommendation engine on Netflix. I don’t like everything Netflix tells me to watch. Same with perplexity. I don’t agree with everything it suggests me. People need to stop expecting the computer to think for them and instead see it as a tool to amplify their own thinking.