Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

Post by no_carrier » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC

delecti wrote: post #46

abixb wrote: post #14

Heavy Gemini user here, another observation: Gemini cites lots of "AI generated" videos as its primary source, which creates a closed loop and has the potential to debase shared reality. A few days ago, I asked it some questions on Russia's industrial base and military hardware manufacturing capability, and it wrote a very convincing response, except the video embedded at the end of the response was an AI generated o…

All of that and you're still a heavy user? Why would google change how Gemini works if you keep using it despite those issues?

Post by alex1138 » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

freediver wrote: post #158

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #103

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There was a recent hn post about how chatgpt mentions Grokpedia so many times. Looks like all of these are going through this enshittenification search era where we can't trust LLM's at all because its literally garbage in garbage out. Someone had mentioned Kagi assistant in here and although they use API themselves but I feel like they might be able to provide their custom search in between, so if anyone's from Kagi…

Correct, Kagi Assistant uses Kagi Search - with all modifications user made (eg blocked domains, lenses etc).

Post by JumpCrisscross » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 11:37 PM UTC

storystarling wrote: post #193

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #53

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Try Kagi’s Research agent if you get a chance. It seems to have been given the instruction to tunnel through to primary sources, something you can see it do on reasoning iterations, often in ways that force a modification of its working hypothesis.

I suspect Kagi is running a multi-step agentic loop there, maybe something like a LangGraph implementation that iterates on the context. That burns a lot of inference tokens and adds latency, which works for a paid subscription but probably destroys the unit economics for Google's free tier. They are likely restricted to single-pass RAG at that scale.

Post by phatfish » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC

rvnx wrote: post #149

krior wrote: post #138

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> another post-Soviet country Other post-Soviet countries fare substantially better than Russia (Looking at GDP per capita, Russia is about 2500 dollars behind the economic motor of the EU - Bulgaria.)

Must be a misunderstanding 1) Post-soviet countries are doing amazingly well (Poland, Baltics, etc) and very fast growing + healthy (low criminality, etc) 2) The "Russia is weak" thing; it is vastly exaggerated because it is 4 years that we hear that "Russia is on the verge of collapse" but they still manage to handle a very high intensity war against the whole West almost alone. 3) China is not a country lagging beh…

Post by gpm » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 1:51 AM UTC

no_wizard wrote: post #199

gpm wrote: post #184

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Saying "some people use llms to spread lies therefore I don't trust any llms" is like saying "since people use people to spread lies therefore I don't trust any people". Regardless of whether or not you should trust llms this argument is clearly not proof of it.

Those are false equivalents. If a technology can’t reliably sort out what is a trustworthy source and filter out the rest than it’s not a truth worthy technology. There are tools after all. I should be able to trust a hammer if I use it correctly All this is also missing the other point: this proves that the narrative companies are selling about AI are not based on objective capabilities