Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”
Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
The Verge Kylie Robison
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Discussion
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@ethank
Ethan Kaplan
on threads
“Apple is late to AI”
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@paul_rietschka
Paul Rietschka
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“Google inadvertently reinvents expert systems.” This will end well.
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@jonathangarelick
Jonathan Garelick
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Google's generative AI team is writing a crazy amount of if statements right now
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@reckless1280
Nilay Patel
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Google is manually removing weird AI answers in search - probably ruining whatever margin bringing the cost of an AI query down 80 percent over the last year saved. Lots in this @kylie.robison piece! https://www.theverge.com/...
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@kylie.robison
Kylie Robison
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Google promised a better search experience — now it's telling us to put glue on our pizza Last year, Google said that AI was the future of search. What's the point, though, if the search seems dumber than before? https://www.theverge.com/...
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@laguettler.bsky.social
@laguettler.bsky.social
on bluesky
Thank goodness the company that created a dangerously unreliable product will be determining in how much danger is worth the financial and reputational investment they sunk into it. [embedded post]
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
on bluesky
will an AI be making these decisions over what will be removed [embedded post]
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
on bluesky
how dare users try to trip up our experimental AI that we are training on these same users to make a lot of money for ourselves where is the loyalty