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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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[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A Google spokesperson told the BBC they were "isolated examples".

Some of the answers appeared to be based on Reddit comments or articles written by satirical site, The Onion.

But Google insisted the feature was generally working well.

"The examples we've seen are generally very uncommon queries, and aren’t representative of most people’s experiences," it said in a statement.

It said it had taken action where "policy violations" were identified and was using them to refine its systems.

That's precisely what they are saying.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io -2 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry but reading this as "Google blames users for trolling them" is either pure mental gymnastics or mental illness.