It’s going to be more and more unreliable as the results it’s snipping from are increasingly machine-generated.
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Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google’s featured snippet thing is not only a bad feature, it’s actively causing harm. It’s extremely unreliable, but people who aren’t tech literate, which is most people, think “well it’s Google, so it must be right.” Sometimes it’s obviously wrong in a funny way, but more often, it’s doing something like parroting dangerous medical misinformation. To make things worse, it’s very likely to answer a question, which is the search form preferred by the technologically illiterate, with a yes. I would go so far as to say they should be sued for criminal negligence for implementing it.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 11 months ago
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This is true.
But this screenshot is old if even real. I googled it and the snippet was much more realistic and detailed.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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Sorry, you’re not wrong about the misinformation and how removal from context can change the meaning of the he snippet. This is just my favourite.