I got bored and decided to test copilot with Xbox news (see how it would handle all the noise): Latest Official Xbox Updates
It was… “fine”. Not sure about the figures but it at least wasn’t too halluncinatory. I did have issues in another chat where it was calling Ninja Gaiden 4 a game pass exclusive (that implication would start riots) and it doesn’t seem to know Outer Worlds 2 exists. Oh but for this one the conclusion it came to is that Xbox has the most first and third party support ever, is financially stronger than ever, and has the most financial growth among all three consoles, but none of that (and the reasons why) are publicly visible so Xbox is “dying”. Console sales and layoff woes are visible and the usual metrics for success in gaming, but Game Pass, expanding the ecosystem into PC, and everything else Xbox is doing isn’t. According to copilot Xbox is more invested in gaming than ever on both first party hardware and and a wider ecosystem that includes cloud and PC.
What I’d love to do is see though is if I would have the same results without an account and a blank chat with no cookies or anything on my browser. My concern here is that it basically told me what I wanted to hear and what I already knew. And that’s my concern with generative text in general as a search engine. Especially with stuff like gaming media where there’s so much bias and rumors shared as news and problems AI articles already, I’m wondering if AI search engines will just feed the bubbles and make what we’re already seeing worse.