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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But this is not misinformation, it is uncontrolled nonsense.

Fair enough... but drowning out any honest discourse with a flood of histrionic right-wing horseshit has always been the core strategy of the US propaganda model - I'd say that their AI is just doing the logical thing and taking the horseshit to a very granular level. I mean... "put glue on your pizza" is just not that far off "drink bleach to kill viruses on the inside."

I know I'm describing a pattern that probably wasn't intentional (I hope) - but the pattern does look like it could fit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Oh don't get me wrong I know exactly what you mean and I agree.. it's just that the LLMs are spewing actual nonsense and that breaks the whole principle of what a search engine should do.. provide me accurate results.