We have all seen AI-based searches available on the web like Copilot, Perplexity, DuckAssist etc, which scour the web for information, present them in a summarized form, and also cite sources in support of the summary.
But how do they know which sources are legitimate and which are simple BS ? Do they exercise judgement while crawling, or do they have some kind of filter list around the “trustworthyness” of various web sources ?
My point is “summarizing over all of those” and “poisoning”.
Source of category 1 says cheese is made from XYZ and yellow
Source from category 2 confirms 1 in different words and adds that it has holes
Source from category 3 confirms 2 and adds that its also blue, not only yellow
Source 4 talks about blue cheese only
Poisoning would mean that in the summary cheese is yellow with blue holes.