alt Hacker NewsYou can ask them to cite their sources. It's very good practice to do so, and to check those sources, because I've found that about 30-40% of the time their source doesn't support their answer at all.
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If I have to read the sources anyway, why not just have the model give me the links themselves? You know, like search engines already do?
Yes, but this is much more effort than a traditional search result that has a relevant quote from the source right there.
ChatGPT is the only bot that reliably cites sources (through Web search mode).
The other bots either make up links or simply don't provide any information that is distinguishable from the LLM predictive output.
Ironically Gemini is also very bad at this, while it should have been the best at Web search.
Gemini also does something very patchy, which is to provide "links" which are in fact GET queries into classic Google search. I'm guessing they did it this way because the links generated/hallucinated by the LLM were too unreliable.
Dont they all do that ?
I know that deepseek has links for every chain it makes where you can read the source and it's actually a good thing to check on that.
If it even exists.
If it's wrong 2 out of 5 times, why even waste your time going to it in the first place? That's a massive failure rate.