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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by RGB@group.lt to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And a lot of that content is probably an AI generated hallucination.

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Most of what I've seen in the news so far is due to content based on shitposts from reddit, which is even funnier imo

[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I do dislike when the “actual news” starts bringing up social media reactions. Can you imagine a whole show based on the Twitter burns of this week? … it would probably be very popular. 😭

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely. I wrote about this a while back in an essay:

Prime and Mash / Kuru

Basically likening it to a prion disease like Kuru, which humans get from eating the infected brains of other humans.

[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago

Anyone who puts something in their coffee, makes it not coffee, and should try another caffeinated beverage!!