Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Testing in Prod. Stay classy, Google.

    “The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high quality information, with links to dig deeper on the web,” said a Google spokesperson in an emailed statement to Gizmodo, noting many of the examples the company has seen have been from uncommon queries.

    This is entirely fair. There is no way that anyone at Google could have anticipated that humans would search for strange things on the internet.

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high quality information

      According to some fuckwitted Google rep, and I wouldn’t trust them any further than I could throw them.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      Although any sociologist or veteran of the internet will tell you humans will engage in any exploit that yields a funny result. The Diet Coke + Mentos rule.

      And that means we’ll actively search for hilarious Google AI responses.

      Google is so f double-plus filthy rich, it is obligated to run its projects by experts or be relentlessly mocked. So it should have known this was the outcome.

      Unless this is 5D chess and Google is willfilly using itself as a cautionary tale to discourage future webservice sites from arbitrarily inserting AI into its features.

      • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Unless this is 5D chess and Google is willfilly[sic] using itself as a cautionary tale to discourage future webservice sites from arbitrarily inserting AI into its features.

        Holy shit, can I live in that timeline, please?!? Pretty please?