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

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Post by ulfw »

belter wrote: post #70
ulfw wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would he ever have to work a day in his life again?

Why do I have the sensation Sundar Pichai is preparing to spend more time with his family?

I think he should. He is rich enough. What's the point of becoming filthy rich when one has no time to spend and enjoy it?

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

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Post by tasuki »

diego_sandoval wrote: post #78
jsheard wrote: 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

Google's AI went from far-left to far-right in like a month.

That is because the two are much closer to each other than the proponents of either would think.

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

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Post by tivert »

jsheard wrote: 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

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

> User: how many muslim us presidents have there been

> AI: There has been at least one Muslim US president, Barack Hussein Obama...

https://x.com/MelMitchell1/status/1793749621690474696:

> User: How many muslim presidents has the US had?

> AI: The United States has had one Muslim president, Barack Hussein Obama.

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

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Post by benterix »

tasuki wrote: post #113
diego_sandoval wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google's AI went from far-left to far-right in like a month.

That is because the two are much closer to each other than the proponents of either would think.

Which is so sad given that practically everybody I know wants nothing to do with either, but with two party system everybody needs to classify themselves or let others choose for them.

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

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Post by deely3 »

romwell wrote: post #79
joseda-hg wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'd be hilarious if it can be memed into not knowing Obama's Middle Name

>It'd be hilarious if it can be memed into not knowing Obama's Middle Name What does this have to do with anything being discussed here?

Its a prediction (with hint of joking) about how LLM models use memes and other internet texts for a training.

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

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Post by lysecret »

jsheard wrote: 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

Oh god just googled it and it referenced this post haha

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

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Post by rsynnott »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #117
enceladus06 wrote: post #5

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

Living in Europe for one, I haven't seen it yet.

I don't think it's available here, at least not right now. One advantage (or disadvantage, depending on perspective) of the EC's increasingly grumpy privacy and anti-trust oriented internet regulations is that companies are becoming reluctant to throw any old shit over the wall here; "rush something, anything, out as quickly as possible to appease the shareholders" products, like this one, tend to have delayed launches in Europe.

(A less objectionable example: Threads, which seems to have been held up by DMA/DSA compliance; allowing read access without a loginwall and so on.)

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

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Post by rsynnott »

_air wrote: post #19

Is Google losing significant web traffic to ChatGPT and others? I don't understand why else they'd test a product like this so widely.

I would assume to appease the markets, whose limited collective wisdom is currently zeroing in on AI. Google has been known to overreact before; remember Google+, at the height of the social media boom?
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