this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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I've gotten enough bad citations from AI to know that's not a great course to chart.
I've gotten entirely irrelevant sources where it makes the vaguest connection to the prompt
If you treat it like Wikpedia, where you check the sources and make it give you a direct link, I have found it to be great. It has found sources I never would have found through a search engine.
I'm sure that's true now , but search engines used to be so much better.
The search engine can only find things that exist.
The AI can find things that don't.
What you just said makes no sense man. Use Wikipedia or a good search engine.
Dont try to make slop bots do what you want when there are far better ways that we have had for decades. I'm sorry but this is why i get upset at this. People have lost all tech literacy and now think the only way to do anything is via slopbot.
If you need to sort through billions of lines of data, maybe then a supercomputer with fancy autocorrect would be a good tool.