The BS is starting to pile up · Burstiness and Perplexity

The BS is starting to pile up

Beginning to see increasingly granular non-sense about AI Overviews or ChatGPT responses. I’ve analysed over 10,000 ChatGPT results using QA (quantitative analysis) tools, and read countless papers— particularly in the AML space and the adversarial information retrieval space. That’s given me an (perhaps slightly warped) intuitive sense of response dynamics.

But let us allow ChatGPT weigh in:

I do not directly "consider" Bing reviews in the way a human would—that is, I don't passively browse them or have awareness of specific reviews unless you provide them or explicitly ask for them to be included in a response. However, I can use Bing reviews indirectly when necessary through a specific mechanism:

✅ Mechanism: Access via Web Tool (Search Plugin)

When enabled, I can perform real-time web searches using a tool that retrieves data from Bing and other indexed sources. If you ask me something like:

“What are people saying about [business/product] on Bing?”

“Compare Bing reviews with Google reviews for [location].”

—then I can query Bing's indexed content using that tool. When I do this:

Search is initiated with a query tailored to your request (e.g., "Bing reviews for La Mar SF").

The search result summaries are returned to me.

I extract, summarize, or quote what’s relevant to your prompt, including review scores, quoted user feedback, and sentiment trends.

The data I pull in this way is not live-streamed or permanently cached—it’s used in the moment for that response only.

❌ What I Don’t Do:

I don’t crawl Bing.com or any review site in the background autonomously.

I don’t weight Bing reviews differently from others unless you instruct me to.

I don’t store or favor any one platform's data in my model’s memory or reasoning—unless it’s trained broadly from public internet data (which includes a general awareness of how reviews work, but not current or specific ones).

Example Use Cases Where I Would Access Bing Reviews:

“What do Bing users think of the new MacBook Pro?”

“Summarize the top-rated local steakhouses per Bing reviews in Chicago.”

“Is there a discrepancy between Yelp and Bing reviews for Café Gratitude?”

When asked, I pull recent data, quote review snippets, and interpret the tone and trends. This can be cross-referenced with other review platforms if needed (Yelp, Google, TripAdvisor, Reddit, etc.).

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