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You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)

Well, according to an interview at The Vergewith Google CEO Sundar Pichai published earlier this week, just before criticism of the outputs really took off, these "hallucinations" are an "inherent feature" of  AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature "is still an unsolved problem."

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[–] eee@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

"It's your responsibility to make sure our products aren't nonsense. All we want to do is to make money off you regardless."

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Think I'll try that glue pizza. An odd taste choice, sure. But google wouldn't reccomend actually harmful things. They're the kings of search baby! They would have to be legally responsible as individuals for the millions of cases brought against them. They know that as rich people, they will face the harshest consequences! If anything went wrong, they'd find themselves in a.......STICKY situation!!!!

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

I got a solution, stop being a lil baby and turn off the AI and go on to the next big thing. CRISPR, maybe? Not techbro enough? Make it like Crypto Crispr, only you own this little piece of DNA, and all the corporations that can read the ledger and get your biometrics

What happens when you put a product manager in charge of a software company.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As well as no clue how not to make every product they have shit over time.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

So crazy that humanity has so far allowed the idea of "hallucinations", even just the term, to be normalized and acceptable to any level into a product that's being forced into every layer of our daily existence.

Stop just going with it. Call out hallucinations on their face.

[–] whyalone@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He only cares to make money for the rich shareholders and for him.

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[–] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The moment a politician's kid drinks bleach because of Google's AI is the moment any regulatory action is taken.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have a solution! Employ a human to verify the work of AI, perhaps you need more than one with all the junk AI might produce. Maybe you will even need an entire department to do that, and maybe you should just not use AI.

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[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah no shit, that's what LLMs do

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[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks like Google stopped the AI feature. No more AI suggestions at the top of the page after searching for something.

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