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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

huh, i kinda assumed it was a term made up/taken by journalists mostly, are there actual research papers on this using that term?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It used to mean all generated output though. Calling only mistakes hallucinations is new, definitely because of hype.