Deep seek, not so smart.

[Porthandbuoy]

@lustyd. You're spot on with your explanation. None of these AI models are any use as a search engine. I tried putting identical questions, for different topics, into Google, Bing, ChatGPT and DeepSeek. The conventional search engines returned the expected correct answers, the AI models returned much longer, plausible answers, full of factual errors.

 

[Blueboatman]

@lustyd. You're spot on with your explanation. None of these AI models are any use as a search engine. I tried putting identical questions, for different topics, into Google, Bing, ChatGPT and DeepSeek. The conventional search engines returned the expected correct answers, the AI models returned much longer, plausible answers, full of factual errors.

This is going to be a nightmare for a generation brought up without recourse to editor proofed, printed ‘facts’. ( Books)

Or perhaps we will see some sort of AI standardisation, sounds very Orwelllian and dystopian.

I expect people viewed the Gutenberg press and switch from Latin to common English with equal suspicion!

 

[lustyd]

This is going to be a nightmare for a generation brought up without recourse to editor proofed, printed ‘facts’. ( Books)

Firstly, you’re putting way too much stock in the quality of editing prior to the Internet. Those weren’t always facts, they were often just spell checked.
Secondly, I can put an LLM in front of that book and it will return information only from that book (RAG as I mentioned above). Here the book becomes infinitely more useful and accessible while maintaining what you consider to be facts. I can ask the model then to find information from that text, describe the pictures, translate to another language, or in the case of many books written in English - translate them to normal English rather than overly stuffy wordy booky English as preferred by University editors. Modern books no longer use that type of language, instead erring on the side of accessibility and readability.
Finally, it’s possible to tie the model to a book but add the capability to ask it to expand on a section using results found on the Internet. For instance we can add Wikipedia as an additional source to extend the books content. Wikipedia has proven to be more extensive and reliable than old printed encyclopaedias so is a great additional source.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

You could get it to use urban dictionary, that could well be an improvement on the text in the OP

 

[Alicatt]

... Or Tiananmen Square...

Oh that was one I asked my Chinese friend about, almost 20 years ago, the great firewall of China had blocked all reference to it, so I shared my desktop with her and let her use the search engine on my PC, she spent a good 30 minutes looking up references to Tiananmen, then didn't talk to me for another week or so.

We are still friends and she has now moved to Europe, she was a guest with my wife and I over Xmas and new year.