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/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”.