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Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] hesh@quokk.au 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What's the point of making this semantic difference though?

[โ€“] supamanc@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Because 1) it's true and the article is a bit misleading as to whom is actually doing the lying and 2) it's important to remember that LLM are not sentient and to push back against the tide of language which subtly suggests they are.