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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/</a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>I am using both GPT-4o and NotebookLM, i have the impression that NotebookLM is much better at summarizing and analyzing texts, i am wondering whether that's because of NotebookLM implementation aspects or because of that Gemini Pro 1.5 is better at this task then GPT-4o ? 🤔 <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NotebookLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotebookLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geminipro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geminipro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>text</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/summarizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>summarizing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/analysing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analysing</span></a></p>
CM Thiede<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Pineywoozle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Pineywoozle</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@palin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dangillmor</span></a></span> </p><p>I tried <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/summarizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>summarizing</span></a> that <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/sentiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sentiment</span></a> in a <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/format" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>format</span></a> I thought most would be able to <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/understand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>understand</span></a> a <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comic</span></a></p><p>My <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/band" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>band</span></a> would have <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/printed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printed</span></a> copies of it available at every <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/concert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>concert</span></a> for attendees to take home for <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FREE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FREE</span></a> </p><p>Then, around 5 years in, some <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/anonymous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anonymous</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/critic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>critic</span></a> ripped out the last page from one to <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/write" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>write</span></a> that we needed a <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/chickSinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chickSinger</span></a> to "make it" and left it on a table for us to find.</p><p>What's the saying? Can lead a <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/horse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horse</span></a> to <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> ??</p><p>The <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/smilingorange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smilingorange</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/embed/view/1XvaDK3Fxjb0ZeB2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yumpu.com/en/embed/view/1XvaDK</span><span class="invisible">3Fxjb0ZeB2</span></a></p>
readbeanicecream<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://me.dm/@lloydlemons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lloydlemons</span></a></span> I agree with this, but I try to read the first paragraph or two and the last paragraph two. If the article includes headings, I'll read those on my way to the last paragraph.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skimming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skimming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/summarizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>summarizing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skiptotheend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skiptotheend</span></a></p>
Dr. Alex Bowyer<p>Summarising introduces bias;<br>Someone has to make the decisions about what is important.</p><p>It’s very important to think carefully about who makes those decisions be it human, algorithm or LLM/ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Summarizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Summarizing</span></a> is essential in today’s data driven world but is a very hard problem.</p>