▲ 17 ▼ Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 1 year ago by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments podcast version video version
[–] dgerard@awful.systems [S] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children) Convenience is king, and never mind accuracy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HedyL@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) If I'm not mistaken, even in pre-LLM days, Google had some kind of automated summaries which were sometimes wrong. Those bothered me less. The AI hallucinations appear to be on a whole new level of wrong (or is this just my personal belief - are there any statistics about this?). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] zogwarg@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago Subjectively speaking: Pre-LLM summaries were for the most part actually short. They were more directly lifted from human written sources, I vaguely remember lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits by newspapers over google infoboxes and copyright infringement in pre-2019 days, but i couldn't find anything very conclusive with a quick search. They didn't have the sycophantic—hey look at me I'm a genius—overly-(and wrong)-detailed tone that the current batch has. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HedyL@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) If I'm not mistaken, even in pre-LLM days, Google had some kind of automated summaries which were sometimes wrong. Those bothered me less. The AI hallucinations appear to be on a whole new level of wrong (or is this just my personal belief - are there any statistics about this?). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] zogwarg@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago Subjectively speaking: Pre-LLM summaries were for the most part actually short. They were more directly lifted from human written sources, I vaguely remember lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits by newspapers over google infoboxes and copyright infringement in pre-2019 days, but i couldn't find anything very conclusive with a quick search. They didn't have the sycophantic—hey look at me I'm a genius—overly-(and wrong)-detailed tone that the current batch has. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago Subjectively speaking: Pre-LLM summaries were for the most part actually short. They were more directly lifted from human written sources, I vaguely remember lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits by newspapers over google infoboxes and copyright infringement in pre-2019 days, but i couldn't find anything very conclusive with a quick search. They didn't have the sycophantic—hey look at me I'm a genius—overly-(and wrong)-detailed tone that the current batch has. permalink fedilink source parent