The other day, I wanted to see if alcohol-free port existed. The top search link went to a page of the 20 best alcohol-free ports! Except none of them were port, they were all spirits (not even other fortified wines). The ‘AI’ summary described a fictional process for removing alcohol from port and had two citations, neither of which supported the claim. The next 30 pages were all LLM slop that talked about what port is for a long time before saying that there’s no alcohol-free version.
I have been using the web since the mid ‘90s and it has never been this bad. Anyone advocating for ‘AI’ is advocating for a future where this damage is spread to all facets of life.
@david_chisnall I have to search for names a lot at work to make sure the spellings are correct, and it's forever telling me I've misspelled something and was actually looking for Jeff Goldblum or something equally nonsensical. Last one was checking a racing driver called Jensen Mason, it told me in a very patronising way that actually his name was Jenson Button.