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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

an interesting change from it being a giant jumble of ads

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (8 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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?

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