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Comment by bpavuk

7 days ago

checks out with both Perplexity[0] and top Google results

[0]: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/maltese-scuba-diving-insura...

Interesting that perplexity takes a random Redditor comment as fact...

  • yeah, so many software engineers are not verify "ai search results". Hey people, llm generated search results aren't reliable, might well have hallucinations. You have to verify anything they say.

    • My favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I followed the citation, the source actually said that the storms themselves would persist for days until disappearing.