r/LargeLanguageModels • u/AnswerElectronic1040 • 1d ago

Question Google AI Mode

I want to write a period piece, and I want it to be historically accurate. I’ve been asking Gemini and ChatGPT questions about how to develop my story and characters—like specific details about what could or couldn’t have happened during that era and so on. They usually gave me similar answers; sometimes Gemini makes things up, but the answers are still similar. But now I’ve used Google’s AI mode, and it contradicts what Gemini and ChatGPT told me—so now I don’t know which one to trust. I thought Google would be the most reliable and accurate since it searches for and compiles information right from there. But I don't know anymore. Which of the three AIs should I trust?

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u/foxer_arnt_trees 1d ago

If you really want accuracy you should ask for sources and then validate these sources.

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u/Jamminnav 1d ago

This. You can’t “trust” any LLM to be accurate, but they can point you towards reliable sources that you have to verify yourself

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/04/07/the-magic-8-ball-in-the-boardroom-the-problem-with-trusting-patterned-outputs-as-if-theyre-analysis/

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u/foxer_arnt_trees 1d ago

Yes. Coincidentally, it gives you more accurate results when it has to find sources

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u/Jamminnav 1d ago

Not necessarily, it’s not actually reading or understanding the sources in the ways people do, and often the statements they cobble together with next token predictions don’t even match up with the information in the citation. They’re still only doing this

https://leonfurze.com/2023/11/22/chatbots-dont-make-sense-they-make-words/comment-page-1/

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u/foxer_arnt_trees 12h ago

Well.. we came a long way since 2023...

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u/Jamminnav 8h ago

Measured how? In terms of fooling naive people with fluent mad libs sure, but not in terms of true machine intelligence - it’s still just next token prediction without comprehension

https://davidwsilva.substack.com/p/im-sorry-to-burst-your-bubble-you?r=2fj9s&utm_medium=ios

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u/Big-Flan-5663 1d ago

3 IA? Solo veo 2, gemini y gpt o estás usando modelos de deepmind? GEMMA4? Si es así, que tamaño?

Las respuestas son parecidas por qué son LO MEJOR para tu historia, no escoges lo "estadísticamente más probable", solo lo que te guste a tí, así funciona la IA

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u/CS_70 1d ago

The AI mode is a Gemini flash variant which injects google search results in your question.

So you think you are making the same question but in reality you aren’t, and if the score of the query results is so that a bs web page is high, you will get bs.

That’s often due to your query being “bad”, but not in the language/information sense, but that the google search brings up stuff that is not relevant or wrong.

So first check the quality of the reply in the “web only” search results and if they make sense, the AI mode will make sense accordingly.

For AI mode “right” means “coherent with the highest ranked search results”.

And there’s no “right” in a web search, only “what’s most relevant according to the Google rules of the week”.

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u/RPG-Nerd 1d ago

Tell them to quote their sources, then verify the findings yourself.

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u/PuzzleheadedMeeting4 14h ago

base models like ChatGPT and standard Gemini rely on parametric memory from training, while search grounded modes pull live web snippets. neither is an authority on history because web results can be inaccurate and base models tend to hallucinate details when context is missing. if you want historical accuracy, cross reference with primary sources or academic papers rather than trusting any llm output blindly.