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Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw

I am not saying other generative AI lack flaws, but Google’s AI Overview is the most problematic generative AI implementation I have ever seen. It offends me that a company I used to trust continues to force this lie generator as a top result for the #1 search engine. And to what end? Just to have a misinformed populace over literally every subject!

OpenAI has issues as well, but ChatGPT is a much, much better search engine with far fewer hallucinations per answer. Releasing AI Overview while the competition is leagues ahead on the same front is asinine!

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Chulk@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

And to what end? Just to have a misinformed populace over literally every subject!

This is a feature; not a bug. We’re entering a new dark age, and generative AI is the tool that will usher it in. The only “problem” generative AI is efficiently solving is a populace with too much access to direct and accurate information. We’re watching as perfectly functional tools and services are being rapidly replaced by a something with inherent issues with reliability, ethics and accountability.

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- Liberteez@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  In the case with Google AI overview, I 1000% agree. I am not against all AI tools, but that company has clearly chosen evil.
  
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klemptor@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ve resorted to appending every Google search with “-ai” because I don’t want to see their bullshit summaries. Outsourcing our thinking is lazy and dangerous, especially when the technology is so flawed.

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- Liberteez@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I like that trick, noted! I mostly use DuckDuckGo as a browser and search engine now. If it fails I use ChatGPT
  
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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They famously taught it on Reddit. So it’s not surprising that it just comes up with nonsense.

You would have thought that they would use a more stable data set. Although it does mean it’s very good at explaining the plots of movies badly.

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- futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  it’s very good at explaining the plots of movies badly
  
  Generally by recapitulating plot points with no understanding.
  
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JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Its a language model not a dictionary. By puuting the term “definition” before the sentence you imply that the following sentence has a definintion, hence it vectors down to the most likely meaning.

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- Liberteez@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Buddy, I never said the word definition
  
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Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Saying you used to trust google is really a core part of the problem. Google isn’t a person. Just like AI isn’t a person. They both do what they are tasked with. Companies prioritize profit. AI prioritizes giving an answer, not necessarily a correct one. That is how it was designed.

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- Liberteez@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Fascinating how we seem to agree with each other yet you still found a way to insult my way of putting it
  
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  - Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Wasn’t really going for insult. Companies have spent a lot of time and money to indoctrinate us into thinking of companies like people. Noone is immune. That is the core issue. I probably could have been more explicite on that.
    
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