I love the notion that PhD level experts are easily tricked if questions get very specific. But also,his prompt doesn't sound too specific to me, nor do I see where it would have necessarily tricked a LLM into 'ignoring energy other than solar'. His request included longwave, which is not solar.
Here’s another attempt — if you prompt the model to “find” a diagram (using a question I might ask of my non-major undergrads) it does ok acting as an expensive search engine, but its offer to synthesize what it finds does not turn out well.
I sometimes read the text "answer" the AI offers, but I never believe it. As I explained in another convo on this topic, while one context-rich AI search uses 10X as much energy as a regular search via optimized indexing, I usually get to the right sources with one query, as opposed to 10 or 15.
Did you turn off all the AI features of Duck Duck Go? Some are default. You have to go to Settings on their website.
Didn’t know until you mentioned that I could filter out AI images, but I do have it not pop up AI summaries by default.
