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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 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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[–] SeattleRain 24 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Does anyone have a realistic idea of how this happened? I get Google has been fallen off for awhile but they're still a multi billion dollar company.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

AI doesn't exist. It's a huge model that aggregates existing shit with some filler content to glue it all together. It is not sentient, it's not creative, it's literally a stochastic parrot

So, when the original content is garbage, the output is also garbage. Shit in shit out when you train from fucking Reddit

[–] asdfasdfasdf 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, isn't garbage in garbage out also true of humans?

[–] ComplexLotus 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Humans may test garbage knowledge in real life and experience failure. So in that sense no?

[–] asdfasdfasdf 1 points 6 months ago

Ah, interesting. So is the difference that a true AI would understand how to use the scientific method to test inputs?

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