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Old 07-17-2025, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Mxfrank View Post
The bigger question is "are ordinary search results reliable?" The search engines of today produce pages of pay-for-placement responses now. Anything "real" will be buried on the tenth page, and may well be a human-based hallucination. I long for the days when it was still possible to research a topic at a physical library, with a carefully assembled index and books curated by real publishers. The internet has surrounded all information, and destroyed it.
Only the first couple results are paid, and they have an ad/sponsored icon next to them. Scroll down and you'll be fine. AI responses haven't really been influenced heavily by ads spending yet. Only a matter of time though.

Fwiw MS copilot AI has been one of the worst platforms I have used. Its a wrapper for openAI and chatgpt which is fine, but the copilot application within MS is clunky, buggy, and generally devoid of useful features.
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