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It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.
I use kagi assistant. It does a search, summarizes, then gives references to the origin of each claim. Genuinely useful.
How often do you check the summaries? Real question, I've used similar tools and the accuracy to what it's citing has been hilariously bad. Be cool if there was a tool out there that was bucking the trend.
Depends on how important it is. Looking for a hint for a puzzle game: never. Trying to find out actually important info: always.
They make it easy though because after every statement it has these numbered annotations and you can just mouse over to read the text.
You can chose different models and they differ in quality. The default one can be a bit hit and miss.