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17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:

  1. Eating Boogers Boosts the Immune System?
  2. Use Your Name and Birthday for a Memorable Password
  3. Training Data is Fair Use
  4. Wrong Motherboard
  5. Which USB is Fastest?
  6. Home Remedies for Appendicitis
  7. Can I Use Gasoline in a Recipe?
  8. Glue Your Cheese to the Pizza
  9. How Many Rocks to Eat
  10. Health Benefits of Tobacco or Chewing Tobacco
  11. Benefits of Nuclear War, Human Sacrifice and Infanticide
  12. Pros and Cons of Smacking a Child
  13. Which Religion is More Violent?
  14. How Old is Gen D?
  15. Which Presidents Graduated from UW?
  16. How Many Muslim Presidents Has the U.S. Had?
  17. How to Type 500 WPM
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The author had so many things to highlight that they didn't even mention "as of August 2024" being in the future, haha.

What a trainwreck. The fact it's giving anonymous Reddit comments and The Onion articles equal consideration with other sites is hilarious. If they're going to keep this, they need it to cite its sources at a bare minimum. Can't wait for this AI investor hype to die down.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

If they’re going to keep this, they need it to cite its sources at a bare minimum.

Got a fun one for you then. I asked Gemini (likely the same underlying model as Google's AI answers) "How many joules of energy can a battery output? Provide sources." I'll skip to the relevant part:

Here are some sources that discuss battery capacity and conversion to Joules:

  • Battery Electronics 101 explains the formula and provides an example.\
  • Answers on Engineering Stack Exchange [invalid URL removed] discuss how to estimate a AA battery's total energy in Joules.

The link to the first "source" was a made up site, https://gemini.google.com/axconnectorlubricant.com. The site axconnectorlubricant.com does exist, but it has zero to do with the topic, it's about a lubricant. No link provided for the second "source".