Google recently rolled out AI-generated answers at the top of web searches in acontroversial movethats been widely panned.
And some of them are pretty funny.
But the top tip is very weird, as you’re able to see below.
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AI can definitely plagiarize, well give it that.
Another search that recently got attention on social media involves somepresidential triviathat will surely be news to any historian.
Unless theres some kind of special zombie technology were not aware of, that seems very unlikely.
A Google search conducted by Gizmodo on May 22 about how to keep cheese from sliding off your pizza.Screenshot: Google
For its part, Google is defending the bad information as the result of people asking uncommon questions.
But that raises seems like a very odd defense, if were being honest.
Are you only supposed to ask Google the most banal and common questions to get reliable answers?
A joke made on Reddit about 11 years ago that appears to be the source for a terrible AI-generated answer on Google.Screenshot: Reddit
The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high quality information, with links to dig deeper on the web.
Why are these responses happening?
But the machines work as predictive text models, essentially functioning as a fancy autocomplete feature.
Screenshot: Google
But the machine doesnt know what its saying.
And thats why Google might tell you to put glue on your pizza.
Its not even stupid.
Screenshot: Google
Its not capable of being stupid.
The people who design these systems call thesehallucinationsbecause that sounds much cooler than whats actually happening.
When humans lose touch with reality, they hallucinate.
Screenshot: Lucas Ropek/Google
But your favorite AI chatbot isnt hallucinating because it wasnt capable of reasoning or logic in the first place.
And every tech company on the planet is chasing that initial high with their own half-baked products.
And that defeats the purpose of why you were asking these supposedly smart machines in the first place.
Screenshot: Google
You wanted to get a reliable answer.
The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information, with links to dig deeper on the web.
Lo and behold, Googles AI summary provided a well-sourced answer.
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