Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

The head of Google *Search right now is the same guy that was head of yahoo search when it was dying. To put all of this in perspective.

Can we swap out the word "hallucinations" for the word "bullshit"?

I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as "someone down the pub said..."

So, "someone down the pub said you can eat rocks" or, "someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza".

Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.

Testing in Prod. Stay classy, Google.

“The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high quality information, with links to dig deeper on the web,” said a Google spokesperson in an emailed statement to Gizmodo, noting many of the examples the company has seen have been from uncommon queries.

This is entirely fair. There is no way that anyone at Google could have anticipated that humans would search for strange things on the internet.

"Hey, we just promised you answers. We never promised you correct answers." -- Google Marketing, probably.

On the other hand, all these AI errors by Google have made for some great memes recently.

I mean.. yeah layoff a whole bunch of people and start treating your employees like replaceable commodities.. then go ahead and arrogantly deploy technology you don't understand and :surprisepikachu: everything breaks.

But management get to do things without personal consequence, as they'll just lay off more workers to cover their absolute incompetence and things will continue to get worse.

Perhaps we should be replacing C-suite dipshits with AI's instead.

Why does search need to be AI? I've had no problems finding any information I wanted under the former process.

The AI overview has told me so many lies. You thought Facebook made people stupid? Buckle in!

TBH I hate the term "hallucination" in this context. It's just more BS anthropomorphizing. More marketing for "AI" (also BS). Can't we just call it like garbage or GIGO or something more accurate? This is nothing new. I know that scientific accuracy is anathema to AI marketing but just saying...

This is what I love about Mike Judge's work. It turns out to be always the best metaphor/reference/prophecy of the boring dystopia. Since 1999.

Like we’ve seen before with AI chatbots, this technology seems to confuse satire with journalism

Unfortunately so does my aunt. And she's allowed to vote.

Does anyone have a realistic idea of how this happened? I get Google has been fallen off for awhile but they're still a multi billion dollar company.

They're not hallucinations. People are getting very sloppy with terminology. Google's AI is summarizing the content of web pages that search is returning, if there's weird stuff in there then that shows up in the summary.

Tinfoil hat time. Do you think Google intended this to work well? Or are we talking a lot more about Google and LLMs than we would have otherwise?

Ah, so it only affects searching from the US for now. I already wondered why I couldn't reproduce the stuff I saw here and why I didn't really see a change at my Google results.

Give me your traffic/money! (users/advertisers) 🤑 💰

-Google

It's just a fucking Chinese Room

What a weird combination where Bing has better AI but bad search while Google has bad AI but good search

It’s not hallucination, the proper word is Confabulation. Can we as a collective fix this now before we get stuck with the wrong word for the next 30 years?

brave got there first (wnd you can turn it off)