Google's new AI Overview has encouraged people to eat rocks, glue their pizza, and other incredibly stupid results
  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1155·
    1 month ago

    Not from; about. The answer seems perfectly legit: it describes The Onion as satirical news, and even quotes part of the question as something The Onion calls itself. Not too far fetched.

    Where’s the fault? Ooooh yeah, I forgot. We’re trashing Google. Carry on then.

    • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
      571·
      1 month ago

      Ben Collins, one of the new owners of our former sister site, pointed out some of AI Overview’s most egregious errors on his social media. Asked “how many rocks should I eat each day,” Overview said that geologists recommend eating “at least one small rock a day.” That language was of course pulled almost word-for-word from a 2021 Onion headline. Another search, “what color highlighters do the CIA use,” prompted Overview to answer “black,” which was an Onion joke from 2005.

      Might want to read the article before commenting.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        745·
        1 month ago

        Fair point. But, when the article image makes it look like trash-talk, I’m not compelled to read the article. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
          382·
          1 month ago

          How are you going to be a productive part of the conversation without reading the article? Just wasting everyone’s time.

          • Zidane@lemmy.worldEnglish
            131·
            1 month ago

            Wait a second all these years I’ve been on Reddit/Lemmy and I was supposed to actually read the articles??? Nah mate I can’t be wrong

        • breakingcups@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          1 month ago

          Surely an article’s image could never be used to innocuously illustrate the main subjects of the article?

        • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          81·
          1 month ago

          But you will trash talk it, it seems. Odd that trash talk is only okay when you do it.

        • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 month ago

          I’m not sure that Lemmy is a good place for you. Reddit is probably better suited for you.