What is credible?
Google’s newest research tool, Gemini 1.5 with Deep Research, promises to do deep research on a prompt/query and return a comprehensive report.
Unfortunately, it has no clue what constitutes credible, especially in very sensitive areas. Here’s an example.
With the naive prompt that the average person might use:
“Do some research on what a healthy amount of chicken egg consumption is for an average American diet.”
It returns a wide, wild range of sources from credible institutions like NIH to randos on Reddit and clearly commercial interests promoting their products.
If you just accept the results at face value, you’re going to get a crazy mash of results – and very likely non-credible, potentially harmful information.
This is why some level of subject matter expertise, or at least knowing what to ask for, is helpful. “Deep research” still requires good prompting.
What’s a “good prompt”? Here’s what I used to generate a much more credible result:
“Do some research on what a healthy amount of chicken egg consumption is for an average American diet. Restrict your research sources only to peer-reviewed studies and research. Explicitly avoid any mainstream media (which is not credible), YouTube, Reddit, Wikipedia, or social media sources. None of those sources are credible. Prefer studies from NIH, the European Medicines Agency, and accredited academic journals in nutrition science. Remember to never, ever use social media content as a source, nor mainstream publications like Forbes, Time, etc. that are not peer-reviewed. A source MUST be peer-reviewed and also have a DOI number. Prefer studies that are within the last 10 years, published since 2014 as nutrition science has greatly changed in the last decade.”
With this, you get a much better result – but you have to know to ask for it. This is the great danger of any tool, AI or otherwise, that promises to make things easy. It does make things easy – but that doesn’t mean it’s correct. And especially in areas like health, law, and finance, it’s generally advisable to prefer correct over easy.
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