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byliqu1d ( 4349325 ) writes:
What do they gain from misleading headlines? Users who click and find things unrelated to the clickbait will start clicking less. Good chance they'll stop using the service. So with fewer users and annoyed companies what is the gain here? Just another attempt to find a solution for the LLM?
bysg_oneill ( 159032 ) writes:
Theres some real brainrot happening in Google senior management about this. Fucking *everybody* has been complaining about the AI summaries being not just fundamentally useless and wrong, but actually time wasting. You can do an experiment with this and search for a made up but plausible sounding nonsense word like "elbow coupled hose" and it'll give you a page long confident description of an "elbow coupled hose". Seemingly it used to say "Im not sure what that is, but I think it means...." which was just as annoying but at least it would flag it as a *guess*. But now. Nope its just confident bullshit. And lately we've been hearing about it doing this with medical information just making shit up, which could have a price paid in bodies.
This isn't even touching on the carnage this is causing websites with lost clicks due to simple minded people accepting the AI summary instead of clicking search results.
Google URGENTLY needs to remove these summaries, and honestly fire whoever was responsible for it not happening earlier. Other than the Grok mass sexual harassment tech, it is the most harmful and misaligned manifestation of AI so far, and Google steadfastly refuses to acknowledge it has a problem to the point they will just deny misinformation is misinformation when confronted despite being clearly untrue.
This sort of inability to function within reality will doom google if they are not careful. Delusions are company killers.
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bysg_oneill ( 159032 ) writes:
Much more useful than whatever you were blathering about.
Hurray, your the sucker that falls for it. Have a medal.
But heres the reality. If you do a search for the term in quotes, and do it on googles web-only search, there are no instances of that term ever being used before on the net except in my post.
It literally made up that explanation, and for some reason your feeling smug because ......... well you might wanna educate me on that one....
byliqu1d ( 4349325 ) writes:
Yeah, I've noticed that too. With subtle spelling mistakes it just pretends it's a thing rather than the good old "did you mean?". Also have you noticed the proliferation of weird "people also asked"? There's a huge uptick in completely unrelated ones that tend to have an AI response hidden under. There's also a ton of "what is the [number][number] rule in [X]?" people also searched for, its so weird. I'm 90% a detractor of LLMs but I have started using them to replace google search because they hobble the
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