# Future of General Questions in the AI age

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [July 3, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-of-general-questions-in-the-ai-age/1020443 "2025-07-03T14:05:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-of-general-questions-in-the-ai-age/1020443/54 "2025-07-06T10:59:53Z")

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Yep, browsing through my questions to chatGPT they have been 80% accurate, 10% GPT saying “I don’t know” but in a flowery way, and 10% where there was a significant inaccuracy. Which is pretty amazing, as I only ask it open ended questions, and often _after_ trying and failing to find relevant answers on google.

(On that point: google has gone down a lot IME. It’s not just the pile of sponsored links at the top, but even the non-sponsored links seem heavily weighted towards an interpretation of the query that will drive commerce. I also have [a thread on google maps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-google-driving-navigation-got-noticeably-worse/1020160) starting to have cracks)

I don’t say this to get into a back and forth of anecdotal data, just to say “YMMV” to the caricturization some are making that LLMs are largely inaccurate.

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