Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour (arstechnica.com)
from madeindex@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 21:15
https://lemmy.world/post/45310001

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/45309948

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90% of the time right means 10% of the time wrong, huge deal when you deal with billions of queries! **

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pmw@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 21:46 collapse

Why is Google so insistent on forcing people to read their LLM output? Even their HTML seems intentionally designed to stop people from filtering it from search results. I don’t understand what they gain from doing this.

Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Apr 23:56 next collapse

Investment.

All of this AI hype is focused around convincing investors that it is of immense value and that [insert company here] is going to be well-positioned when AI takes over. Us poors are not the target audience, we’re just pawns that are pushed into using AI to “prove” to investors that it is useful.

OpenStars@piefed.social on 08 Apr 03:54 collapse

If the product looks “free”, then YOU are the real product.

Siegfried@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 13:08 collapse

Im a proud product of linux

OpenStars@piefed.social on 08 Apr 16:14 collapse

Hehe aren’t we all:-P

OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 03:39 next collapse

Because it drives the number of users up, and more users = more money

JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz on 08 Apr 03:59 collapse

Although by stopping users right after the search with a scraped LLM answer, they won’t go to other sites like they used to which could serve google ads for them, resulting in less money. Not to even mention the long term issue that with no more traffic or revenue, the websites the AI uses for information will die, making the AI useless.

OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 05:54 collapse

True. What I was oversimplifying was that they need to drive the number of AI users up by inflating them through forced use.

Much like how companies demand employees to integrate AI in their workflow to show that they have AI users in the workplace

This then inflates the value of AI products, which makes more money for the sellers in that regard

Just a cycle of bullshit to drive AI investment and sales

madeindex@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 15:02 collapse

Interesting! I feel like they want the people to stay longer on their platform instead of going on the websites?