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Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by jsheard »

If you ask it how many Muslim presidents the US has had, it will confidently tell you that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. I'm beginning to think that treating statistically common sequences of words on the whole internet as a source of truth may not actually be a very good idea.

edit: screenshots for posterity

https://x.com/TVietor08/status/1793768913245020502

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by cryptoz »

Side note, when did Reddit unarchive posts? I remember years ago they stopped allowing new comments on a post, but here is a decade-old post with new comments!

And to stay on topic- this is exactly why ChatGPT took off. OpenAI says they were surprised by the huge response…but, their intense (and yeah controversial) RLHF really pays off with not suggesting soooo much of this wrong / dangerous stuff.

Google of course is allergic to human intervention in anything.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by card_zero »

enceladus06 wrote: post #5

Is there a way to turn the ai search result off in Google? It is not helpful.

I think we had a post about that recently:

How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414943

I assume that's what this is, I haven't used Google for almost a decade so I wouldn't really know.

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