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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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[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used Bing by default for several months just because that's what my work laptop's browser had for default.

I never directly compared those results to DDG, but 9/10 times I would get frustrated by the lack of relevant results and go back to Google, where I'd find something useful on the first page of results.

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

Interesting! Did your results have that copilot summary thing? I get most of my answers there without having to visit a handful of ad-laden sites myself, though it also cites its references in case I don't trust the summary.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Not so much, maybe towards the last month of that period defaulting to Bing. I think it was still being constantly rebranded then. It was still pretty new, so I never really trusted it for anything and just went to the sites in the results.