“The AI is hallucinating answers to several user queries, creating a less-than-trustworthy experience across Google’s flagship product. In the last week, Gizmodo received AI overviews from Google that reference glue-topped pizza and suggest Barack Obama was Muslim.”
Google’s catchphrase USED to be “Don’t be evil” (they dropped that years ago). Now it should be “Don’t be stupid”.
Like no one thought to blacklist parody sites?
Is no one there smart as a ten year old?
https://gizmodo.com/google-search-ai-overview-giant-hallucination-1851499031
Lesson One in How to Kill Your Brand:
Do stupid shit like this to “beat everyone to the market.”
THEN say “The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high quality information”
Like saying “The vast majority of Boeing flights are high quality”
Ummm… I’m thinking there is something very wrong in that line of thinking…
@feloneouscat This the weirdest thing ever. How could a tech giant whose entire reputation is staked on data integrity make such a colossal misstep?
This is a manifestation of some of the world's greatest fears about AI. It's not even an AI plot. It's AI recklessness.
The world is already in a cataclysmic credibility crisis. This is *not* what we needed.