Kagi News

Post by slaterbug » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 6:16 AM UTC

cgsmith wrote: post #231

nicbou wrote: post #171

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I monitor 404 errors on my website. ChatGPT frequently sends traffic to pages that never existed. Sometimes the information they refer to has never existed on my website. For example: "/glossary/love-parade" - There is no mention of this on my website. "/guides/blue-card-germany" has always been at "/guides/blue-card". I don't know what "/guides/cost-of-beer-distribution" even refers to.

Definitely need an LLM to just generate it automatically on the fly! Welcome to the future! (Just kidding please don't (generate automatically))

Post by torben-friis » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 6:31 AM UTC

byearthithatius wrote: post #269

pjc50 wrote: post #265

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There's too much demand for fake news, plenty of subsidy for it, and it's far easier to make. Non fake news is going to be restricted to pay services like Bloomberg terminals.

It is getting easier and easier to fake stuff and there are becoming less and less fully trusted institutions. So sadly I think you are right. Its scary but we are likely heading towards a future where you need to pay to get verified information and that itself will likely be segmented to different subscriptions for what information you want.

Post by __jonas » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 7:06 AM UTC

mediumsmart wrote: post #377

__jonas wrote: post #23

Just to be clear I'm understanding correctly: This is pulling the content of the RSS feeds of several news sites into the context window of an LLM and then asking it to summarize news items into articles and fill in the blanks? I'm asking because that is what it looks like, but AI / LLMs are not specifically mentioned in this blog post, they just say news are 'generated' under the 'News in your language' heading, whi…

Maybe you should read the article before you assume how it works. It’s pretty clear and AI is specifically mentioned.

Post by lukan » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 7:21 AM UTC

seec wrote: post #387

byearthithatius wrote: post #269

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It is getting easier and easier to fake stuff and there are becoming less and less fully trusted institutions. So sadly I think you are right. Its scary but we are likely heading towards a future where you need to pay to get verified information and that itself will likely be segmented to different subscriptions for what information you want.

Well the thing is that technically information is free, but creating it is definitely not. So, if Ads are not paying for it, and people won't pay for it either, who does? Fake news exists because of the perverses incentives of the system; where getting as many clicks as possible is what matters. This is very much a result of social networks and view-based remuneration. I don't think it's that bad if people need to pa…

Post by eitland » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 7:28 AM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #228

Harmon758 wrote: post #211

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Just for concrete confirmation that LLM(s) are being used, there's an open issue on the GitHub repository, on hallucinations with made up information, where a Kagi employee specifically mentions "an LLM hallucination problem": https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/issues/97 There's also a line at the bottom of the about page at https://kite.kagi.com/about that says "Summaries may contain errors. Please verify imp…

Love how it only took 8 years to go from "Fake News!" to "News May Be Fake"