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Google's AI generated overviews seem like a huge disaster lol.
I just tried that and got the same result. It's from a site that just quotes a snippet of an Onion article 🤦
Bwahahahaha good ol' Onion.
I keep thinking these screenshots have to be fakes, they’re so bad.
You’d think the mainstream media would be tearing this AI garbage to shreds. Instead they are still championing it. Shows who pulls their strings.
The other day the local news had some “cybersecurity expert” on, telling everyone how great AI was going to be for their personal assistant shit like Alexa.
This bubble needs to burst, but they just keep pumping it.
They can’t afford to have the bubble burst, so many important organizations and companies need this to succeed.
If it fails… then what was the point of the mass harvesting of data? What was the point of them burning billions of dollars to lock down peoples interactions on the internet in to platforms? What will be left fix search engines other than preventing SEO and stop selling places on the page?
There are of course other reasons, but not ones that can be admitted. For them to admit what a farce this all is, would be to admit that they’ve been wasting all our time and money building a house of cards, and that anyone who’s gonna along with it is complicit.
The promises made at the c-suite levels of many (all) industries to use AI to replace workers is the biggest driver here. But anyone who is paying attention can see this shit is not going to work correctly. So it’s a race to get it deployed, get the quarterly earnings and bail with the golden parachute before this hits the fan and this deficient AI ruins hundreds of industries. So many jobs will be lost for no reason and so many companies will be forced to rebuild, if they can. Or just go under and the big guys will take over their share of the market. So yeah this is all pretty fucked. And the mainstream media is trying to sell all of this to the average Joe like it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
Then there’s nvidia and the VCs. It’s almost like dot com 1.0 all over again.
Yes, and add a little bit of cold war style paranoia in there as well. These companies know that their product doesn't work very well, but they think their competitor is maybe right on the verge of a breakthrough, so they rush to deploy and capture market share, lest they get left completely behind.
They're also putting it in control of autonomous weapons systems. Who is responsible when the autonomous AI drone bombs a children's hospital? Is it noone? Is noone responsible?
That's a feature not a bug.
eh... AI fails every couple of decades. There's even a webpage about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
First the Google Bard demo, then the racial bias and pedophile sympathy of Gemini, now this.
It's funny that they keep floundering with AI considering they invented the transformer architecture that kickstarted this whole AI gold rush.
What pedophile sympathy?
Here is an article about it. Even if it's technically right in some ways, the language it uses tries to normalize pedophilia in the same ways as sexualities. Specifically the term "Minor Attracted Person" is controversial and tries to make pedophilia into an Identity like "Person of Color".
It was lampshading the fact this is a highly dangerous disorder. It shouldn't be blindly accepted but instead require immediate psychiatric care at best.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/28/googles-gemini-chatbot-soft-on-pedophilia-individu/
I did not hear about the pedo sympathy, Jesus fucking Christ™
Google for birds.
I can't recreate it
Same, I'm guessing they disabled it for those key words after the article came out.