Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

Post by miltonlost » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #70

delecti wrote: post #46

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All of that and you're still a heavy user? Why would google change how Gemini works if you keep using it despite those issues?

Just wait until you get a group of nerds talking about keyboards - suddenly it'll sound like there is no such thing as a keyboard worth buying either. I think the main problems for Google (and others) from this type of issue will be "down the road" problems, not a large and immediately apparent change in user behavior at the onset.

Post by jabroni_salad » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC

miltonlost wrote: post #91

zamadatix wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wait until you get a group of nerds talking about keyboards - suddenly it'll sound like there is no such thing as a keyboard worth buying either. I think the main problems for Google (and others) from this type of issue will be "down the road" problems, not a large and immediately apparent change in user behavior at the onset.

Well, if the keyboard randomly mistypes 40% of the time like LLMs, that's probably not a worthwhile keyboard.

Post by dbacar » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

Post by duskwuff » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

gpm wrote: post #81

no_wizard wrote: post #38

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>Countering debasement of shared reality and NOT using AI generated videos as sources should be a HUGE priority for Google. This itself seems pretty damning of these AI systems from a narrative point of view, if we take it at face value. You can't trust AI to generate things that are sufficiently grounded in facts that you can't even use it as a reference point. Why should end users believe the narrative that these t…

Using it as a reference is a high bar not a low bar. The AI videos aren't trying to be accurate. They're put out by propaganda groups as part of a "firehose of falsehood". Not trusting an AI told to lie to you is different than not trusting an AI. Even without that playing a game of broken telephone is a good way to get bad information though. Hence why even reasonably trustworthy AI is not a good reference.

Post by titzer » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

abixb wrote: post #14

Heavy Gemini user here, another observation: Gemini cites lots of "AI generated" videos as its primary source, which creates a closed loop and has the potential to debase shared reality. A few days ago, I asked it some questions on Russia's industrial base and military hardware manufacturing capability, and it wrote a very convincing response, except the video embedded at the end of the response was an AI generated o…