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It failed my first test which concerned Upside magazine. All of these deep research versions have failed to immediately surface the most famous and controversial article from that magazine, "The Pussification of Silicon Valley." When hinted, Perplexity did a fantastic job of correcting itself, the others struggled terribly. I shouldn't have to hint though, as that requires domain knowledge that the asker of a query might be lacking.

We're mere months into these things, though. These are all version 1.0. The sheer speed of progress is absolutely wild. Has there ever been a comparable increase in the ability of another technology on the scale of what we're seeing with LLMs?



I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was definitely faster, but the development of mobile phones post-iPhone went pretty quick as well.


> pussification of silicon valley upside magazine

Google nor bing can find this


Do you have Google SafeSearch or Bing's equivalent turned on perhaps?

I reckon it might be triggered by the word 'pussification' to refuse to return any results related to that.

If you're using a corporate account, it's possible that your account manager has enabled SafeSearch, which you may not be able to disable.

Local censorship laws, such as those in South Korea, might also filter certain results.



I don't see the article you are mentioning


Wild. My results are literally dozens of posts about the article.

https://imgur.com/a/1hTJVkl


About the article, not any link to the article itself.


It is possible that the original article is no longer accessible online.

The only link I have found is a reproduction of the article[1], but I am unable to access the full text due to a paywall. I no longer have access to academic resources or library memberships that would provide access.

My Google search query was:

    pussification of silicon valley inurl:upside
which returned exactly one result.

I suspect the article's low visibility in standard Google searches, requiring operators like 'inurl:', might be because its PageRank is low due to insufficient backlinks.

[1] https://www.proquest.com/docview/217963807?sourcetype=Trade%...


Nothing with "pussification" in the title for me there.


Wild. My results are literally dozens of posts about the article.

https://imgur.com/a/1hTJVkl


I see a reference to the comment, a guiardian article about the article but not the article itself.

Perhaps it’s softnuked in the eu or something?


Can't find it either.


My standard prompts when I want thoroughness:

"Did you miss anything?"

"Can you fact check this?"

"Does this accurately reflect the range of opinions on the subject?"

Taking the output to another LLM with the same questions can wring out more details.


I'd expect a "deep research" product to do this for me.




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