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

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Post by romwell »

deely3 wrote: post #116
romwell wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

I get that part, but why specifically forgetting Obama's middle name?

I don't recall there being too many memes about that, or the "Obama is a Muslim" conspiracy theories caring much about his middle name being Hussein (their argument centers around who Barack's father was).

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

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Post by a_rana »

msoad wrote: 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...

This was next level funny :D

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

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Post by Sparyjerry »

I think it just highlights how bad Google's algorithm has become. Answers from the Onion, Reddit, and other highly inaccurate sources. Doesn't help that everyone has already gamified the Google search results. I used top be able to find an answer to a difficult question by going 2-3 pages deep. Now, I know if I have to go past the 1st page its all spam.

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

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Post by joseda-hg »

romwell wrote: post #131
deely3 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I get that part, but why specifically forgetting Obama's middle name? I don't recall there being too many memes about that, or the "Obama is a Muslim" conspiracy theories caring much about his middle name being Hussein (their argument centers around who Barack's father was).

A bit of a late reply, but it seems I misremembered the meme, the joke was his last name, not his middle name [0]

It's dated 2012, but I remember a resurgence in more recent years, which seems to coincide with the Interest Graph (Which shows the spike in 2022) Even then it doesn't seem like it was too viral

I thought it'd be appropriate, the whole joke being acting as if the name isn't known, regardless of it literally being in the message, it seems like exactly the thing that would trip up an LLM

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obamas-last-name

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

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Post by romwell »

joseda-hg wrote: post #134
romwell wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that part, but why specifically forgetting Obama's middle name? I don't recall there being too many memes about that, or the "Obama is a Muslim" conspiracy theories caring much about his middle name being Hussein (their argument centers around who Barack's father was).

A bit of a late reply, but it seems I misremembered the meme, the joke was his last name, not his middle name [0] It's dated 2012, but I remember a resurgence in more recent years, which seems to coincide with the Interest Graph (Which shows the spike in 2022) Even then it doesn't seem like it was too viral I thought it'd be appropriate, the whole joke being acting as if the name isn't known, regardless of it literal…

Thanks so much for the reply! It makes sense now, and I also wonder if LLMs can be convinced with memes like that :)
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