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

submitted 3 months ago by RGB@group.lt to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can we swap out the word "hallucinations" for the word "bullshit"?

I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as "someone down the pub said..."

So, "someone down the pub said you can eat rocks" or, "someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza".

Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, hallucination is a really good term. It can be super confident and seemingly correct but still completely made up.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's a really bad term because it's usually associated with a mind, and LLMs are nothing of the sort.

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google search isnt a hallucination now though.

It instead proves that LLMs just reproduce from the model they are supplied with. For example, the "glue on pizza" comment is from a reddit user called FuckSmith roughly 11 years ago.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Without knowing what specific comment it was, I'm going to guess it was on how advertisers make pizza look better in ads than real life?

[–] otacon239@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nope. They were just trolling and fucking around. It was obvious sarcasm:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pizza/comments/1a19s0/comment/c8t7bbp/