Ai Search Results Suck....and They Are Getting Worse

Corporal Punishment · Mar 22, 2026

I can't stand AI search results for a number of reasons, but mainly because they lie and people believe them.... which then makes the lie true because people think AI is somehow an authority. It is not, but try telling the masses that. .

I've written quite a bit on this... anyhow.....here's a different rant.

An author submitted some apps today that I started looking up. In this case, LinuxSimplify-windows. I did a quick search on the file to see what was up. One thing I sometimes do is add 'majorgeeks' to the search just to see if we have it, it used to have a differnt name, or you guys are talking about it and we missed something.

Lo and behold -- Bing not only gives MajorGeeks CREDIT for the file but lists the official GitHub page for LinuxSimplify-Windows as our review or Chris Titus's WinUtil. Granted the summary is correct, but daaaaamn, but do we really want this stuff flying our planes and driving our cars?

How do you explain the ticket? Sorry, Officer, my AI missed the red light, but it got the speed right. We cool?

DangitallRedux · Mar 22, 2026

Artificial Idiocy is breeding more of the genuine thing. What was the name of that movie? "Idiocracy"? That's what we're coming to.

XoXgaming · Mar 22, 2026

Corporal Punishment said: ↑

I can't stand AI search results for a number of reasons, but mainly because they lie and people believe them.... which then makes the lie true because people think AI is somehow an authority. It is not, but try telling the masses that. .

I've written quite a bit on this... anyhow.....here's a different rant.

An author submitted some apps today that I started looking up. In this case, LinuxSimplify-windows. I did a quick search on the file to see what was up. One thing I sometimes do is add 'majorgeeks' to the search just to see if we have it, it used to have a differnt name, or you guys are talking about it and we missed something.

Lo and behold -- Bing not only gives MajorGeeks CREDIT for the file but lists the official GitHub page for LinuxSimplify-Windows as our review or Chris Titus's WinUtil. Granted the summary is correct, but daaaaamn, but do we really want this stuff flying our planes and driving our cars?

How do you explain the ticket? Sorry, Officer, my AI missed the red light, but it got the speed right. We cool?
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i'm sick of AI reason why i stopped using windows 11 because of nothing but copilot and it's all surveillance.

Wenchie · Aug 2, 2026

That's the part that makes me twitch.

It didn't just get a fact wrong—it rewrote reality with absolute confidence. It basically went, "This is a MajorGeeks tool... here's the GitHub page where the actual developer keeps it." ‍♀️

That's what people don't get when they say, "Well, it was mostly right." Close enough works for horseshoes and hand grenades. Attribution isn't one of them.

AI is an amazing assistant, but it's also the coworker who confidently explains your job to everyone... while getting your name wrong.

And that's exactly why I still click the sources instead of treating the summary like gospel.

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Ai Search Results Suck....and They Are Getting Worse

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