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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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[+] FaceDeer@fedia.io -13 points 6 months ago (23 children)

They're not hallucinations. People are getting very sloppy with terminology. Google's AI is summarizing the content of web pages that search is returning, if there's weird stuff in there then that shows up in the summary.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 9 points 6 months ago (13 children)

AI hallucination is a technical phrase, with the definition:

In the field of artificial intelligence, a hallucination or artificial hallucination is a response generated by AI which contains false or misleading information presented as fact. This term draws a loose analogy with human psychology, where hallucination typically involves false percepts.

So it's like how a person sees stuff that isn't there, and similarly with AI.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Ppl anthropomorphise LLMs way too much. I get it that at first glance they sound like a living being, human even and it’s exciting but we had some time already to know it’s just very cool big data processing algo.

It’s like boomers asking me what is computer doing and referring to computer as a person it makes me wonder will I be as confused as them when I am old?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, hi, second coming of Edgar Dijkstra.

I think anthropomorphism is worst of all. I have now seen programs "trying to do things", "wanting to do things", "believing things to be true", "knowing things" etc. Don't be so naive as to believe that this use of language is harmless. It invites the programmer to identify himself with the execution of the program and almost forces upon him the use of operational semantics.

He may think like that when using language like that. You might think like that. The bulk of programmers doesn't. Also I strongly object the dissing of operational semantics. Really dig that handwriting though, well-rounded lecturer's hand.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh, hi, second coming of Edgar Dijkstra.

Don’t say those things to me. I have special snowflake disorder. I got literally high reading this when seeing a famous intelligent person has same opinion as me. Great minds… god see what you have done.

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