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Re: Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

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Hopefully that is the case, because what Google and others are trying via AI, is to privatize the web. They already tried it via AMP. People are probably annoyed that AI/LLMs are lying to them, so not everyone sees the main threat being Google trying to containerize and "walled garden" approach access to information. > I have certainly found that when I ask a chat tool something, and then go to the human-written sour…

Which lab is going to stop AI from hallucinating first? What’s taking them so long? If OpenAI was going to do it, why didn’t Anthropic do it first, or vice versa? Or if we assume collusion: shouldn’t DeepSeek have released a hallucination-free LLM to steal the US’s thunder? (Good points on AMP and walled garden)

the whole point of an llm is to generate "plausible sounding" tokens one after each other.

It can sadly not hold any concept of truth or reality as we humans understand it

Re: Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

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The most interesting part of the official announcement [0]: "As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives..." That implies Google is seeing a shift away from people relying on just AI-generated summaries, and checking the cited sources more. I have certainly found that when I ask a chat tool something, and then go to the human-written source webpage, it's not uncommon I get a different insight than what the AI i…

> "a different insight" What a generous euphemism. Depending on the topic, it's not unusual to see Google AI search referencing links that indicate the exact opposite of what it presents in its prose. So many of these tools are presented as if they're doing something you'd intuitively expect of a human operator, like collating search results and then summarizing them in this case, but the actual operation of them is…

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Re: Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which lab is going to stop AI from hallucinating first? What’s taking them so long? If OpenAI was going to do it, why didn’t Anthropic do it first, or vice versa? Or if we assume collusion: shouldn’t DeepSeek have released a hallucination-free LLM to steal the US’s thunder? (Good points on AMP and walled garden)

the whole point of an llm is to generate "plausible sounding" tokens one after each other. It can sadly not hold any concept of truth or reality as we humans understand it

We’ll be awaiting a source a while! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873333
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