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Yet another "AI bad" post that I can't replicate. Not that I'm defending Google, they've been shit ever since they removed "do no evil" from their strategy, but this is silly. It takes two seconds to verify the top auto generated result when you search something, you literally just have to scroll to the second and third results. If you just take the autogenerated answer (I'm feeling lucky?) without doing any verifying then someone failed you when it comes to doing online research. And for what it's worth, within hours of this issue being discovered, it was corrected by the same system that made the erroneous claim in the first place.
The problem is that it only gets fixed when people talk about it en masse. Saying it's fixed when it keeps making the same mistakes is misleading.