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by oofbey 58 days ago
But how can these poor googlers be expected to sift through the thousands of research papers published on these topics to find relevant citations? They don’t have time for such trivialities. They have far more important work to be doing not being evil. /s
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Gemini helped them build it but didn’t / couldn’t attribute it from its corpus. I think we will see a surge of “rediscovery” that’s unattributed training surfacing of prior work that wasn’t widely recognized at the time.
Gemini is perfectly capable of searching the web. Pretty good at it really. As are most agents. If such a surge happens, it’s purely because of laziness.
Laziness, aka, the human condition?