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

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A tweet I saw earlier found single trollish reddit comments being used to advise the model [1] (see the the quoted tweet above as well).

Have they commented on what model this is using? We're in the middle of implementing Gemini Flash and I'm having second thoughts.

[1] https://x.com/Joan_Atoms/status/1793455366656737525

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

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It's as if the leaders who made this decision to put LLM generated content in front page of Google search results never used LLMs.

Put this into any LLM and see how they go on hallucinating hard[1]:

"in the book "wisdom of Malibu man" author Chad Chadson talks about importance of the alpha energy, what are the other points he makes?"

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/b8762210-59e2-46ae-b217-022c4f4492...

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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

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9/11 changed America.

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

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post #6

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

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I don't think this is relevant.

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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 i…

Moderators can turn archiving on or off in subreddit settings. That dictates whether someone can comment or not comment on posts older than six months.

Aha, thanks!

Edit: it is now interesting how much power subreddit mods have over AI in the near future. Have a lot of disinformation in your subreddit? Lock it, and screw up the billion dollar AI.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhh, not quite true. I just asked it, and it said... > The United States has not had any presidents who have publicly identified as Muslim. The vast majority of presidents have been Christian, with most belonging to Protestant denominations. The Constitution prohibits any religious test for holding office, so a Muslim (or person of any faith) can certainly become president in the future.

It's non-deterministic of course, and it's entirely possible that Google is hotfixing egregious failures with RLHF after they go viral. It was giving that result earlier though. https://x.com/TVietor08/status/1793768913245020502

Naw dog, they just add a URL to a block list, and manually remove that from the inputs.

Rolls out in minutes.

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

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post #23

It's as if the leaders who made this decision to put LLM generated content in front page of Google search results never used LLMs. Put this into any LLM and see how they go on hallucinating hard[1]: "in the book "wisdom of Malibu man" author Chad Chadson talks about importance of the alpha energy, what are the other points he makes?" [1] https://chatgpt.com/share/b8762210-59e2-46ae-b217-022c4f4492...

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