Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

Post by baconbrand » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

visarga wrote: post #275

softwaredoug wrote: post #216

The other day I was researching with ChatGPT. * ChatGPT hallucinated an answer * ChatGPT put it in my memory, so it persisted between conversations * When asked for a citation, ChatGPT found 2 AI created articles to back itself up It took a while, but I eventually found human written documentation from the organization that created the technical thingy I was investigating. This happens A LOT for topics on the edge of…

Simple solution - run the same query on 3 different LLMs with different search integrations, if they concur chances of hallucination are low.

Post by graemep » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 5:49 PM UTC

jwr wrote: post #257

graemep wrote: post #186

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Why this particular stand? Is doing nothing any better than taking what are essentially random stands? Obviously if you are Ukrainian this will be an important stand to you, but otherwise doing things based on a mix of what the media you like focuses on or whatever is not really very different from doing nothing.

> Why this particular stand? First, any stand is better than whataboutism and just sitting there doing nothing. Second, this stand results from my thoughts. It is my stand. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Third, in the history of the modern world there were very few black&white situations where there was one side which was clearly the aggressor. This is one of them.

Post by pavel_lishin » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #155

Projects like this remind me of a plot point in the Cyberpunk 2077 game universe. The "first internet" got too infected with dangerous AIs, so much so that a massive firewall needed to be built, and a "new" internet was built that specifically kept out the harmful AIs. (Or something like that: it's been awhile since I played the game, and I don't remember the specific details of the story.) It makes me wonder if a ne…

Post by mcv » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC

alessioalex wrote: post #279

troyvit wrote: post #256

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So if America invades Venezuela should we all stop using google? Should we have stopped using google when the U.S. invaded Iraq and killed 150,000 people[1]? Should we stop using products imported from China for the cultural genocide they've perpetrated against the Uyghurs?[2] Is Yandex Russia? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chi…

You can take whatever stand you want. When there’s a country that killed, raped and tried to exterminate most of Eastern Europe we can choose to cut any and all ties with it and consider them for all intents and purposes ..terrorists.

Post by JumpCrisscross » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 6:14 PM UTC

greenicon wrote: post #152

kuschku wrote: post #102

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That depends on the language — whereas German puts spaces around —, English afaik usually doesn’t. Similarly, French puts spaces before and after ? ! while English and German only put spaces afterwards. [EDIT: I originally wrote that French treats . , ! ? specially. In reality, french only treats ? and ! specially.]

In German you use en-dashes with spaces, whereas in English it’s em-dashes without spaces. Some people dislike em-dashes in English though and use en-dashes with spaces as well.