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Comment by ValentineC

17 hours ago

> They can be a bit tricky to find on your own, so I'd suggest asking your preferred AI to search in Mandarin for you.

Random, but are the frontier AI providers like ChatGPT better at searching the Chinese internet now?

When I was in China a few months ago and asking AI for restaurant recommendations, all the US frontier providers were pretty useless, or plain out hallucinating, even if I specifically ask them to search Dianping (Yelp for China).

I'm not sure. I use Grok for most of my esoteric searches and it does quite well. I explicitly prompt it to search in the language most relevant to that query, and found it does quite well. I also tell it to respond back in English. Often, there is not enough information available in English about nice regional topics.

I know ChatGPT had an issue where it only tried to search in English (unless prompted) and the answers were not great.