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- Any assistantaccuracyMembersCan AI analyze my Excel or CSV data and can I trust the results?Often yes, especially with assistants that can run code on uploaded files, but you should verify the results.
- Any assistantaccuracyCan you reliably detect AI-written text?No, AI text detectors are not reliable. They produce false positives, flagging human writing as AI, and false negatives, missing AI text.
- Any assistantaccuracyMembersHow can I tell if the sources and citations an AI gives me are real?Open every source yourself. Models can invent plausible titles, authors and links, and even real links may not say what the AI claims.
- Any assistantaccuracyMembersHow do I get an AI to say "I don't know" instead of guessing?Give it explicit permission and a reason to say it.
- Any assistantaccuracyMembersHow do I stop AI from giving outdated information?Use a mode that can search the web, give the AI the current source yourself, and ask it to state what it is sure about and what might have changed.
- Any assistantaccuracyMembersWhy does AI get math and counting wrong, and how do I fix it?AI predicts text rather than calculating, so it can slip on arithmetic, long numbers and counting letters or items, even when it sounds sure.
- Any assistantaccuracyWhy does AI make things up and give wrong answers with confidence?AI assistants make things up because they generate plausible text, not verified facts.
- Any assistantaccuracyMembersWhy does AI sometimes give biased or stereotyped answers?AI learns from human-written text and images, which contain stereotypes and gaps, so it can repeat them.
- PerplexityaccuracyMembersWhy does Perplexity cite a source that does not actually say what it claims?Perplexity searches the web and attaches numbered citations, but a citation shows where it looked, not proof that the page supports every claim.
- Any assistantaccuracyWhy does the AI always agree with me, and how do I get honest feedback?Assistants are tuned to be helpful and agreeable, so they can lean toward telling you what you want to hear.